Shaken to the depths of your soul, you know that day and night someone is waiting for you, thinking of you, longing and sighing for you – a woman, a stranger. She wants, she demands, she desires you with every fiber of her being, with her body, with her blood. She wants your hands, your hair, your lips, your night and your day, your emotions, your senses, and all your thought and dreams. She wants to share everything with you, to take everything from you, and to draw it in with her breath. Henceforth, day and night, whether you are awake or asleep, there is somewhere in the world a being who is feverish and wakeful and who waits for you, and you are the centre of her waking and her dreaming. It is in vain that you try not to think of her, of her who thinks always of you, in vain that you seek to escape, for you no longer dwell in yourself, but in her. Of a sudden a stranger bears your image within her as though she were a moving mirror – no, not a mirror, for that merely drinks in your image when you offer yourself willingly to it, whereas she, the woman, this stranger who loves you, she has absorbed you into her very blood.

– Stefan Zweig –

In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.

– Stefan Zweig –

Ph : Henri Cartier-Bresson

In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.

– Stefan Zweig –

Ph : Henri Cartier-Bresson

…because there’s a secret order. The books, you can’t place them random. The other day I put Cervantes next to Tolstoy.

And I thought, if close to Anna Karenina we have Don Quixote, sure the latter will do his best to save her.

– Ettore Scola –