Memories of Recurrent Echoes Quotes

“Beyond Man's knowing truth lies another truth unconquered...”
― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“...How many would like to get out of this world at the cheapest price?”
― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“Let him who knows who he is be no other but himself.”
― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“Silence is as deep as eternity, words are as short as time.”
― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“To smile with your eyes you must perforce know how to love.”
― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“The more you understand Nature's voice, the more you'll understand the voice of the Divine.”
― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“Christ said that there is no greater love than dying for others. But I say that sometimes, there is no greater love than staying alive for the sake of others. To stay alive for the sake of others, particularly if you are pure of heart, is more painful than calling it quits once and for all. See this love in this context if you want to look at it through the eyes of the heart.”
― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“Everything is debatable where the exigencies of human beings are concerned.”
― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“The only extant devil is the distorted mind of the human being...”
― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“Would you like to know what the eternal human equation is all about? The more you know yourself, the less you need to seek out others... the less you know yourself, the more you seek out others...”
― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“Change is nothing but an illusionary result of the same thing experienced yesterday attired in new garb...”
― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“If I were you, I would invest more in your personal garden than in utopias... these are nothing but imagined islands you'd be only animating from your personal shore...”
― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“Man is saddened because he knows not who he is, or else knows so much that he seems to be alien to all...”
― ANTON SAMMUT, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“To love silence you must first learn Man's distorted vocabulary. Only when you have done so will you appreciate silence.”
― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“Like many others of the younger generation, for Magda and Fritz the last years of the sixties were the utopian meaning of paradise on earth, the more so for Magda who had graduated with honours. She had based a part of her thesis on the philosophical perspective of the Expressionist movement, particularly what the philosopher Nietzsche wrote in his book Thus Spoke Zarathustra, in which, amongst other things, he stated: ''What does my shadow matter?... Let it run after me!... I shall out-run it...'' And that's what Magda wanted to do with her life: declare herself independent from conventional thought and from past memories.”
― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“On arrival at Orly Airport, Fritz and Magda hired a taxi which drove them to the city. They saw before them a metropolis crowned with triumphal architecture and magnificent monuments. The first Parisian landmark that caught their eye was the majestic Eiffel Tower and, in the background, on a distant hill, the white church of Montmartre. They immediately opted that their hotel could wait and asked the driver to take them around the city, though they knew that this would cost them a whole day's budget.

What they began to see was simply spectacular: wide areas edified with splendid monuments, fantastic fountains, enchanting gardens and bronze statues representing the best exponents who flourished in the city, amongst whom artists, philosophers, musicians and great writers. The River Seine fascinated them, with boatloads of tourists all eager to see as much as they could of the city. They also admired a number of bridges, amongst which the flamboyant Pont Alexandre III. The driver, a friendly, balding man of about fifty, with moustaches à la Clemenceau, informed them that quite nearby there was the famous Pont Neuf which, ironically, was the first to be built way back in 1607. They continued their tour...”
― ANTON SAMMUT, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“The twins spend their second day in Paris at the Louvre.

''... Really great geniuses, eh Fritz? One could barely call them human beings.''

'' As a matter of fact, I don't think they were... just superior beings from some other planet... perhaps from the same one that gave us Mozart and Plato, for it's impossible that a mere human being create such monumental works.''

''Wonderful...”
― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“In the following days the twins went all over the city; they visited more museums, particularly the avant-garde ones. Whenever Magda spotted a Van Gogh her eyes would fill with tears, remembering the aberrational agony this great artist had gone through. The work that stirred her most was one of those many self-portraits of the artist in a sober and tormented mood; a painting built by many heavy brushstrokes of dense undiluted paint applied spirally giving the impression that the image was materializing from a turquoise background. Magda spent a full ten minutes before one such portrait. When she returned back to earth she noticed a young man beside her, as absorbed with the painting as she was and whose face looked familiar.”
― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes

“You must understand that all of us are in the same boat which, at times, can find itself in calm seas and at others in rough ones.
Maybe you'll tell me that yours has only seen rough seas.
But know this... that a boat inured in rough seas comes out stronger than one anchored in port. The latter, in the heaven it enjoys, becomes more susceptible to rot.”
― Anton Sammut, Memories of Recurrent Echoes