"The old house, for those who know how to listen, is a sort of geometry of echoes. The voices of the past do not sound the same in the big room as in the little chamber, and calls on the stairs have yet another sound. Among the most difficult of memories, well beyond any geometry that can be drawn, we must recapture the quality of the light..."

sike[r]

"Maybe it is a good thing for us to keep a few dreams of a that we shall live in later, always later, so much later, in fact, that we shall not have time to achieve it. For a that was final, one that stood in symmetrical relation to the we were born in, would lead to thoughts—serious, sad thoughts—and not to dreams. It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality."