“But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which
repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself, into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously.”
Julio Cortazar, Agentinian novelist
Reblogged this on Leonard Durso and commented:
from Douglas Moore’s blog Art of Quotation one that hits home
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It did for me as well, thank you for sharing.
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You’re welcome. Couldn’t resist this one.
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🙂
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