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Raymond Queneau – Quando tu avrai un passato, Yvonne / Some day you’ll have a past, Yvonne

William Stephen Coleman (1829-1904), The Butterfly Catcher Some day you’ll have a past, Yvonne, and you’ll see what a funny thing it is. Over here, it’s in pieces:nothing left. Over there,it’s all cluttered with weeds, and doesn’t look familiar either. And then some parts of it seem so pretty that you repaint them every year,sometimes …

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Leonardo Sciascia

Jean-François de Troy, An Allegory of Time Unveiling Truth, 1733 Tutta un’impostura. La storia non esiste. Forse che esistono le generazioni di foglie che sono andate via da quell’albero, un autunno appresso all’altro? Esiste l’albero, esistono le sue foglie nuove: poi anche queste se ne andranno; e a un certo punto se ne andrà anche …

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Milan Kundera

Salvador Dalí, The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, 1954 The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy or repaint it. We want to be masters of the future only …

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Robert Burns – Vecchi tempi andati / Auld Lang Syne

Vincent van Gogh, The Drinkers (after Honoré Daumier), 1890 Should auld acquaintance be forgot,and never brought to mind?Should auld acquaintance be forgot,and days of auld lang syne?And days of auld lang syne, my dear,and days of auld lang syne.Should auld acquaintance be forgot,and days of auld lang syne?We twa hae run aboot the braesand pu’d …

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