"... people become like what they love."

“There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.”

Source : Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

“If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.”

“Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.”

Source : "Fictional character: Florentino Ariza". "Love in the Time of Cholera", www.imdb.com. 2007.

“Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.”

Source : "Camera Lucida". Book by Roland Barthes, www.theguardian.com. 1980.

“History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?”

“The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.”

“I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.”

“The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.”