Pascal Quignard - A Terrace in Rome
Incredible book. A few passages and a few pages
"As soon as there was a storm, the engraver would leave his house and go climbing in the mountains. " (28)
"I think that all my life I've been jealous. Jealousy comes before imagination. Jealousy, it is sight stronger than eyesight. " (89)
"He maintained that one always lied, no matter what one said; and that one lied all the more, the more diligent one was or the more force one exerted in upholding the truth. "My friend, here's the truth: no one who lies, lies completely. " (101)
"We should consider engravers as translators who transfer the beauties of one rich and magnificent language into another which is indeed lesser but which has more violence. This violence imposes immediate silence on whomever it confronts." (114)
