The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give t… - Italo Calvino

A conversation with Miss Zwida would lead me inevitably to talk about seashells, and I cannot decide what attitude to take, whether to pretend absolute ignorance or to call on a remote experience now vague; it is my relationship with my life, consisting of things never concluded and half erased, that the subject of seashells forces me to contemplate; hence the uneasiness that finally puts me to flight.

At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it.

We all have a secret wound which we are fighting to avenge.