“You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It’s frightening how many people and things there are in a man’s past that have stopped moving. The living people we’ve lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all.As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night

No ordinary love, Sade, 1992.

Illustration from Revue des arts graphiques : Gutenberg-journal, via Paris Bibliotheques

“Some people do not know how rich they are until they experience how rich people steal from them.”

—The Gay Science, §257.

Kevin Champeny

East Beirut 1978

Bergen, Norway, 1968.

Esquire Magazine - 1950

Always in the company of our longtime ghosts.

— Jonathan Cuchacovich, from screenplay Isabel: The Intimate Story of Isabel Allende (Megamedia Chile, 2021)

Trey Friedman (American, 1962) - Still Life Inside (2002)