• “We could never subject ourselves to traditions, or blind our living future to feats already defunct.”
• “A tradition is a past that counterfeits the present.”
• “Nationalism always appears in history as a sign of decadence.”

I.

• “The source of that strange unease weighing upon my shoulders, that dull anxiety pervading me.”
• “This is what the Mediterranean is: this smell or scent which it is pointless to express - we all feel it with our skin.“

II.

• “The doctrine seems to have retreated before the land; and it is a miracle of the Mediterranean to allow men who think hu...

[ver 1] There was a time When I could breathe my life into you One by one Your pale fingers started to move

And I touched your face And all that was erased You smiled like an angel Fallen from grace

[ver 2] You kissed my lips With those once-cold fingertips You brought me back to life Life

All things come to and end We don't have to pretend To be fall asleep Just to wake up again