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"Ada Or Ardor" Quotes
"Ada or Ardor" is a complex, multi-layered love story exploring themes of time, memory, and forbidden passion in an alternate reality.
Quotes
The world was a mess and a puzzle and I was puzzled by the mess.
Memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people.
The past is a constant accumulation of images, and it is these images that form our history and shape our future.
I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it becomes.
Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
All happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error spoils it, the slightest hesitation delays it, the slightest dullness depresses it.
Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average ‘reality’ perceived by the communal eye.
Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.