memory of pleasure

Return to Chateaubriand's words: "Breaking with reality is easy, but with memories! The heart breaks to abandon illusions because there is so little truth in man." As for Alessandro Baricco, he says: "It is a strange pain to die of longing for something you have never lived." Nostalgia, or the pain of an impossible return, is only possible through what selective memory offers to revive and reawaken the abandoned desire latent in the depths of the soul. This overwhelming longing, which can only be calmed by writing, is the only antidote in the face of the violence of the horror of the tragedy of time.