

“Le désir, dit-il, c'est avoir quelque chose à gagner, et l'amour quelque chose à perdre.”
― Celle que vous croyez
― Celle que vous croyez
“La felicità non ha mai energia propria, è un riflesso, una sottrazione di infelicità che si comprende solo dopo la stagione del dolore - La casa mangia le parole”
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“[The ones made for music are the most beloved of all. Their bodies a container for the spirit within; the best of them is music, the rest only instrument of flesh and bone.]”
― Fates and Furies
― Fates and Furies

“The members of Joy Division likely weren’t meditating on Frank Lloyd Wright when they took the stage in Manchester but those flat-fronted black cotton trousers and narrow cut shirts didn’t come from nowhere. Peter Saville, who designed all of Factory’s records, understood in perfectly well: the iconic weight of black and white balanced against the release of splendour, in this case the dark magnificence of the music itself. Which might describe the tension of Protestant affect more generally: all guardedness and restraint until the eruption of an unextirpated beauty wakes us for a moment from the dream of efficiency.”
― Imagine Me Gone
― Imagine Me Gone

“What I have always found most comforting about these forms is the trace of hope I get as I'm filling them out. How they break your life down into such tidy realms, making each seem tractable, because discrete, in a way they never are beyond the white noise of the waiting room. You get that fleeting sense that you're on the verge of being understood, truly and fully, and for the first time, if you could just get it all down in black and white before the receptionist calls your name.”
― Imagine Me Gone
― Imagine Me Gone
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