“We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is false and real. But somewhere a piece of disguise that we forgot still sticks to us. A trace of exaggeration remains in our eyebrows; we do not notice that the corners of our mouth are bent. And so we walk around, a mockery and a mere half: neither having achieved being nor actors.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Cordoba Spain
People, A Photograph of Life
“Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.”
– Alain de Botton
Bird, A Photograph of Cordoba Spain
“The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”
– J.M. Barrie
Word, A Photograph
“So I find words I never thought to speak
In streets I never thought I should revisit
When I left my body on a distant shore.”
– T.S. Eliot
Little by Little, A Photograph
“Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten you
If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land”
― Pablo Neruda
One Street Shy 