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)

I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.

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

90s Russia

Divina Commedia - Inferno, Canto XXXII, Dante and Virgil before Lucifer
Italian Manuscript; XIV Century

Silver Grill Cafe, Vancouver, 1975.

“This is what happens to us in music: First one has to learn to hear a figure and melody at all, to detect and distinguish it. Then it requires some exertion and good will to tolerate it in spite of its strangeness. Finally, there comes a moment when we are used to it, when we sense that we should miss it if it were missing. As it is in music, that is how we have learned to love all things we now love. Even love has to be learned.”

—The Gay Science, §334 (edited excerpt).

Berlin By Night. 1964

Power of knowing without being known.

— Margaret Atwood, The Door; from ‘Secrecy’