reprise

photos: carolin walch

Take away the only thing I can’t afford to lose.

Let love and faithfulness never leave you;
bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart.

photos: carlotta manaigo

photos: carlotta manaigo

- ‘One day, I was already old,
in the entrance of a public place a man came up to me.
He introduced himself and said:
‘I’ve known you for years.
Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young,
but I want to tell you I think you’re more beautiful now than then.
Rather than your face as a young woman,
I prefer your face s it is now. Ravaged.’

- 我已經老了，有一天，在一處公共場所的大廳裡，
有一個男人向我走來。他主動介紹自己，
他對我說：”我認識你，永遠記得你。
那時候，你還很年輕，人人都說你美，
現在，我是特為來告訴你，對我來說，我覺得現在你比年輕的時候更美，
那時你是年輕女人，與你那時的面貌相比，我更愛你現在備受摧殘的面容。”

- ” I’ve never written, though I thought I wrote,
never loved, though I thought I loved,
never done anything but wait outside the closed door.”

- 我自以為我在寫作，但事實上我從來就不曾寫過，
我以為在愛，但我從來也不曾愛過，
我什麼也沒有做，不過是站在那緊閉的門前等待罷了。

Marguerite Duras – The Lover

photos: Luca Dinosaur Campri

tasting nothing but 4 words,

“please don’t leave me”.

photos: Valeria Cherchi