Sitt Marie Rose Quotes

“Morality is violence. An invisible violence at first. Love is a supreme violence, hidden deep in the darkness of our atoms. When a stream flows into a river, it’s love and it’s violence. When a cloud loses itself in the sky, it’s a marriage. When the roots of a tree split open a rock it’s the movement of life. When the sea rises and falls back only to rise again it’s the process of History. When a man and a woman find each other in the silence of the night, it’s the beginning of the end of the tribe’s power, and death itself becomes a challenge to the ascendancy of the group.”
― Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose

“Il y a plus de deux cents bateaux dans le port qui attendent de décharger leurs marchandises et comme ils sont tout allumés, les nuits, Beyrouth a l'air de s'être déplacé, d'avoir glissé sur la mer.”
― Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose

“La mort n'est jamais au pluriel. N'exagérons pas sa victoire. Cette dernière est suffisamment totale. Ne la chantons pas cette victoire. Il n'y a pas de millions de morts. Il arrive des millions de fois que quelqu'un meure.”
― Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose

“Everyone lives Time. If then one added every second lived by each of these people, lived by each of us, by all the people of the world, at this precise moment, it would make all the eternity of Time.”
― Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose