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„Когда ты есть ничто, пустое место, остается только дать волю фантазии. Ты стараешься хоть чем-нибудь заполнить пустоту.“

„Его лучшие - самые жизненные - фотопортреты получались, когда объектами съёмки были люди по натуре спокойные, не подверженные резким переменам настроения.
А вот энергичные, непоседливые люди зачастую выходили неудачно: их сущность плохо поддавалась фиксации, и на снимке они напоминали восковые копии, внешне похожие на оригиналы, но лишенные их природной живости.“

“What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?”

“Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.”

“A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.”

“For it must be very lonely being dead.”

“Life is compost.”

“Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.”

“People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.”

“There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.”

“Tragedy alters everything.”

“We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delinaments, weight and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all.
I know, he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.”

“Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.”