The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness.

And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.