Emotionally, I wanted to stay. Intellectually, I wanted to leave. As always, I seemed to enjoy punishing myself. - Susan Sontag

For Valéry, the nature of beauty is that it cannot be defined; beauty is precisely “the ineffable.

But the past is the biggest country of all, and there's a reason one gives in to the desire to set stories in the past: almost everything good seems located in the past, perhaps that's an illusion, but I feel nostalgic for every era before I was born; and one is freer of modern inhibitions, perhaps because one bears no responsibility for the past, sometimes I feel simply ashamed of the time in which I live.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams