Krysař může mnoho. Může vyvésti krysy a může vylidniti města. Nemůže však zadržeti čas.

The rays which stream through the shutter will be no longer remembered when the shutter is wholly removed.

The moon has seen many a theory come and go.

I wish all this never had to change,” says Rafiq, unexpectedly. I’m pleased he’s content and sad that a kid so young knows that nothing lasts.

The pleasure-house is dust:—behind, before,This is no common waste, no common gloom;But Nature, in due course of time, once moreShall here put on her beauty and her bloom.She leaves these objects to a slow decay,That what we are, and have been, may be known;But at the coming of the milder day,These monuments shall all be overgrown.

How frail the bloom, how short the stayThat terminates us all!Today we flourish green and gay,Like leaves tomorrow fall.

Whenever you see flies or insects in a still life—a wilted petal, a black spot on the apple—the painter is giving you a secret message. He’s telling you that living things don’t last—it’s all temporary. Death in life. That’s why they’re called natures mortes. Maybe you don’t see it at first, with all the beauty and bloom, the little speck of rot. But if you look closer—there it is.

Often one wishes for things to repeat; you want to relive a moment that escaped, return to a gesture that didn’t take place or a word that wasn’t uttered; you try to find again the sounds that were left in your throat, the caress you didn’t dare give, the tightening of the chest that is gone forever.

On écrit pour aujourd'hui, et sans lendemain.

Indian Gurus are masters in downplaying the importance of earthly expansion.