1/6
Il silenzio muore, il rumore prende dappertutto il potere. È la sola calamità ecologica sulla terra di cui nessuno parla.
2/6
Noi non viviamo solo per vivere. Tutto non ricomincia a ogni generazione: noi riceviamo e tramandiamo. La vita si inscrive in una patria, in una lingua, in un mondo che spetta a noi mantenere con cura e forse anche con amore.
3/6
Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.
4/6
Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.
5/6
Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere.
6/6
L'amour fait de vous l'otage d'un absent que vous ne pouvez ni fixer, ni esquiver, ni éconduire. Cette emprise est le désespoir de l'amoureux et son trésor le plus cher.