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“companions at the shadow's edges, the place of calculations, no map, no air, no easy way out”
― Ray DiPalma, Obedient Laughter

“You will always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere:
there is no ship for you, there is no road.
As you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you’ve destroyed it everywhere else in the world”
― C.P. Cavafy

“with the passing of the years each neighbourhood each street in a city evokes a memory a meeting a regret a moment of happiness for those who were born there and have lived there. often the same street is tied up with successive memories to the extent that the topography of a city becomes your whole life called to mind in successive layers”
― Patrick Modiano

“Ever since, the Paris wherein I have tried to retrace her steps has remained as silent and deserted as it was on that day. I walk through empty streets. For me, they are always empty, even at dusk, during the rush hour, when the crowds are hurrying towards the mouths of the métro. I think of her in spite of myself, sensing an echo of her presence in this neighborhood or that.”
― Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder