How to be both

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Et ricordare suplicando a quella che io sonto francescho del cossa il quale a sollo fatto quili tri canpi verso lanticamara:

Francesco del Cossa

green spirit seeking life

where only drought and desolation sting;

spark that says that everything begins

when everything seems charcoal

Eugenio Montale / Jonathan Galassi

J’ai rêvé que sur un grand mur blanc je lisais mon testament

Sylvie Vartan

Although the living is subject to the ruin of the time, the process of decay is at the same time a process of crystallization, that in the depth of the sea, into which sinks and is dissolved what once was alive, some things ‘suffer a sea-change’ and survive in new crystallized forms and shapes that remain immune to the elements, as though they waited only for the pearl diver who one day will come down to them and bring them up into the world of the living –

Hannah Arendt

Just like a character in a novel, he disappeared suddenly, without leaving the slightest trace behind.

Giorgio Bassani / Jamie McKendrick