
“The absence of one we love is not solitude, it is severance.”
L’assenza di chi si ama non è solitudine è ablazione.
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Solitude
“The absence of one we love is not solitude, it is severance.”
L’assenza di chi si ama non è solitudine è ablazione.
“Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.”
“Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.”
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
“Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.”
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)
“Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.”
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom