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‘One should never be cured of one’s passions.’ Marguerite Duras, Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein, 1964

‘All this, all of this love we’re talking about, it would just be a memory.’ Raymond Carver What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, 1981 Venice

‘There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes an curl your hair an make your nerves jump and your skin itch.’ Raymond Chandler, Red Wind, 1938 Harry Gruyaert, Morocco

‘To say goodbye is to die a little.’ Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, 1953 Per Severin Krøyer - Capri, Oleanders in Bloom, 1896

‘The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.’ Raymond Chandler, Great Thoughts, February 19, 1938

‘There are two kinds of truths: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art.’ The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler, 1976 published © Katia Chausheva

‘If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.’ Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), 1958 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brie, France, 1968

Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.’ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), 1958

‘We’re not blind. We’re just human. We live in a changing reality to which we try to adept ourselves …’ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Il Gattopardo, posthumously 1958 Claudia Cardinale, Il Gattopardo (Luchino Visconti, 1963)

‘… They’re dangerous as all gifts from the sea are; the sea offers death as well immortality.’ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, La Sirena 1961 posthumously Gustave Courbet, L’immensité, 1869

‘If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.’ - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 1958 Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), Luchino Visconti, 1963 youtu.be/yykQLPfLVXE

‘Books they’re a kind of compulsion for me.’ Philip Seymour Hoffman

‘The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.’ Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, 1949 starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, 2012

You know I Am No Good … Amy Winehouse youtu.be/b-I2s5zRbHg William Klein, NYC (Vogue) 1962

‘I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with the books themselves, (…) I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them …’ Eudora Welty, One Writer’s Beginnings Lectures from April 1983, Harvard 📷 Ralph Hassenpflug, New York, 2017

‘I can’t see you, but I know you’re here. I’m here! I wish you were here. I wish you could talk to me …’ Peter Falk in Der Himmel Über Berlin ( Wings of Desire) Director Wim Wenders, 1987

‘These images are my secret garden …’ - Sabine Weiss Vers la Lumière (L’homme qui court), 1953

‘You can look for a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.’ Joan Miró Sabine Weiss, Petit garçon regardant oeuvre de Miró, 1955

‘What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.’ Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1879-80 © Sabine Weiss

‘Imagination is the voice of daring.’ Henry Miller, The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sextus, 1949 Sabine Weiss, Au bord de la mer Bretagne, 1954

‘Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms …’ Carl Sandburg, The People, Yes, 1936 Edward Hopper, Hotel by a Railroad, 1952