Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology.

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important.

I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness.

Study the world’s skin before you set out to look for its heart.

I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

And if the City falls but a single man escapes. He will carry the City within himself on the roads of exile. He will be the City.

monday: empty storehouses a rat became the unit of currency