Melancholia is, I believe, a musical problem: a dissonance, a change in rhythm. While on the outside everything happens with the vertiginous rhythm of a cataract, on the inside is the exhausted adagio of drops of water falling from time to tired time. For this reason the outside, seen from the melancholic inside, appears absurd and unreal …

– Alejandra Pizarnik –

People at the beginning of a relationship

often shy away from embarrassing questions

because they were afraid to destroy

that fragile structure they had just erected,

committing 1,000 reserves.

– Amin Maalouf –