Cristobal Helfert

“the god does not speak to those who have no time to listen.”
― Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave

“The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“Where the smoke cleared, the crystal air, with some of the efficacy of faith, seemed to remove the mountains almost to the sea, bringing them so near that one might count the scarred glades on their wooded sides.”
― O. Henry, Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry

“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realise that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all . . . Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing . . . (I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life, as it did my mother’s . . .) LUIS BUÑUEL This moving and frightening segment in Buñuel’s recently translated memoirs raises fundamental questions – clinical, practical, existential, philosophical: what sort of a life (if any), what sort of a world, what sort of a self, can be preserved in a man who has lost the greater part of his memory and, with this, his past, and his moorings in time?”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat