"When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life." Marguerite Duras
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” Carl Jung
"Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close." Marguerite Yourcenar
“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.” T. S. Eliot
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." Edgar Allan Poe
"I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection." Jorge Luis Borges
"The salvation of the world is in man's suffering." William Faulkner
“A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.” Plato
“Anguished bending, mending and weeding, time into extant time…” Pedro Lobo
"I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow." Ellsworth Kelly
“It was an overcoat day.” J.D. Salinger
“The clouds are drifting against me. Only if this were a film I would consider it real.” Werner Herzog
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.” Francis Bacon
"Man makes religion, religion does not make man". Karl Marx
"The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness." Nikos Kazantzakis
"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness." Allen Ginsberg
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." Immanuel Kant
"A journey never ends. Only the travellers end." Jose Saramago
“Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.” Moliere
"Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent." Elizabeth Bishop
"But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: I’m subterraneously unattainable because of what I know." Clarice Lispector
"I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up." Fernando Pessoa
"Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future" Sally Mann
"When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life." Marguerite Duras
"I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still." Arthur Rimbaud