Sometimes it seems we are living

just to watch it all end.

- Essex Hemphill

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; 

reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.

- Simone Weil

I named what disappears.

- Yves Bonnefoy

Very early in my life

it was too late.

- Marguerite Duras

My emptiness

is not lacking.

- Antonio Porchia

La profundidad de las cosas

es la serenidad.

- Roberto Juarroz

Am I in love? — yes, since I am waiting.

- Roland Barthes

To love purely is to consent to distance.

- Simone Weil

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

- Simone Weil

Every day

I find out something

I am against.

- Eileen Myles

To be scandalized is a right.

To scandalize is a pleasure.

- Pier Paolo Pasolini

Love takes off masks that we fear

we cannot live without.

- James Baldwin

What matters is not what people think of me,

but what I think of them.

- Jean Genet

Je est un autre.

- Arthur Rimbaud