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People call me a philosopher or a scientist or an anthropologist. I am none of those things. I am an anamnesiologist. I study what has been forgotten. I divine what has disappeared utterly. I work with absences, with silences, with curious gaps between things. I am really more of a magician than anything else.

— Laurence Arne-Sayles

Ohne Zunge; weil sie wieder geraucht hat.

Soon you'll realize that many people will love the idea of you, but will lack the maturity to handle the reality of you.

— Reyna Biddy

Anselm Kiefer | Sternenfall | 1998

We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

— William Casey; CIA Director, 1981

Disgraceful if, in this life where your body does not fail, your soul should fail you first.

— Marc Aurel

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And like the moon, we must go through
phases of emptiness to feel full again.

Solitude can be a moody companion.

— Jonathan Carroll

Voyage in Time; dir. by Tonino Guerra, 1983

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Am I in love? — Yes, since I'm waiting.

— Roland Barthes

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True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

— E. M. Cioran

Letzter Zug (Lok 364 863-1) am 23.12.1999 auf der Strecke Mülheim-Heißen - Essen-Rüttenscheid - Hattingen; seit November 2004 Radweg Grugatrasse.

[Why are you so sad?] Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.

— Leo Tolstoy

Andy, take my picture.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

— Henry Kissinger

Romy Schneider

La Piscine; dir. by Jacques Deray in 1969

Her fingers are eloquent.

— Andreas Empirikos

Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60's in Brussels;
dir. by Chantal Akerman, 1994

Nature doesn't really care about your beliefs.

— Richard Feynman

Damaged people always find each other, the attraction is irresistible.

— Michael Boiano

Ich kann mit den ganzen Worten nichts anfangen. Ich weiß auch gar nicht, was ich darauf antworten soll.

— Klaus Kinski

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The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

— Auguste Rodin

I made landscapes out of what I feel.

— Fernando Pessoa

Ballet Master of the Opéra de Paris and his students, Paris.

Ph. by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1930

She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

— Jeanette Winterson

Just move, you'll discover. The strength you don't know.

— Susan Sontag

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She lives in dreams, alone.

— Virginia Woolf

Those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not in words.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

[Heavy rotation.]

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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I find some comfort in things that aren't easy to define.

— Chelsea Wolfe