"Sos linda 

como una mandarina"

Foto tomada de un mural de "poemas" en el centro comercial Burlöv Center, Skåne, Suecia.

“…A melancholic longing must be as emotional as it can get. It evokes the image of wolves howling at the moon…

…She has something to lose. For instance, a child. She is not longing for anything. She appreciates what she is in. Whereas Justine has nothing to lose. She’s a melancholiac, and we are ever longing, you know. And when you’re longing, you can’t lose anything. You have nothing..."

Comments on "Melancholia". Lars von Trier

If you have tears...

"...For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel.

Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar lov'd him!

This was the most unkindest cut of all;

For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,

Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms,

Quite vanquish'd him: then burst his mighty heart..."

The tragedy of Julius Caesar. 1599. William Shakespeare.

"Ella quería que fuese suyo por completo y ser ella por completo de él, pero con frecuencia le pa­recía que cuanto más trataba de dárselo todo, más le negaba algo: lo que da precisamente el amor carente de profundidad y superficial, lo que da el flirt. Sufría por no saber ser, además de seria, ligera."

El falso autostop. El libro de los amores ridículos. 1968. Milan Kundera.

"You got to tell me, brave captain,

why are the wicked so strong?

How do the angels get to sleep

when the devil leaves the porch-light on?"

Extracto de Mr. Siegal, album Hartattack and Vine, 1980, Tom Waits, 

Fotos: Match Point, 2005, Woody Allen.

"...Every woman adores a Fascist,

The boot in the face, the brute

Brute heart of a brute like you..."

Daddy, 1962. Sylvia Plath.

Limbo dance. realiq.worldpress.com

"Life is a limbo dance,

 but it's a question of where you get down,

not how low you can get"

Fotograma con Tom Waits, extraido de "Down by Law", 1986. Jim Harmush

"It's not the fall that kills you,

it's the sudden stop"