“A norma d'Universo le grandi stragi non son neppure un brivido, sebben...” — Anna Banti Quote

“A norma d'Universo le grandi stragi non son neppure un brivido, sebbene l'Universo della umana memoria protesti. E s'erano affidati alla carta, al legno, alle pietre, queste materie più salde di un corpo umano, perché l'umanità civile continuasse. Ma ecco scritture, intagli, colori, violentemente sbaragliati e inceneriti, mentre l'ingegnoso che li concepì è ridotto un meschino senza volto, scacciato dal sasso dove univa i piedi tremando, all'orlo di una voragine.”

“You must always be proactive”

“If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it till you got it right.”

“She didn’t know where this path would take her or how she’d fare, but the unknowns didn’t scare her like they used to.”

“Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.”

“Keep a record of your time. Learn to account for each day that passes by.”

“Modernism, philosophically speaking, is in a sense the ‘‘worship’’ of time and the transient, a kind of deification of time and becoming and all that flows in the temporal order. That is why it resulted quickly in historicism and evolutionism and the theories all of those 19th-century philosophers such as Hegel and Marx and scientists such as Darwin. Such people are very different from one point of view, but they all in a sense divinize history even if Marx rejected the category of ‘‘divine.’’ The historical process is the reality that is domi- nant in modern thought. It is that which determines values and even real- ity today in the dominant Western paradigm.”