"Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?"

--

Abraham Polonsky

“In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.”
“Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.”
“Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.”
“A world to be born under your footsteps...”

Source : Saint-John Perse (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.351, Princeton University Press
“Human beings are just gene machines.”
“I took all the blame. I admitted mistakes I hadn't made, intentions I'd never had. Whenever she turned cold and hard, I begged her to be good to me again, to forgive me and love me. Sometimes I had the feeling that she hurt herself when she turned cold and rigid. As if what she was yearning for was the warmth of my apologies, protestations, and entreaties. Sometimes I thought she just bullied me. But either way, I had no choice.”

Source : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.49, Vintage
“The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.”
“I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark.”

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