nº 1 : with objects

“No, my dog used to gaze at me,

paying me the attention I need,

the attention required

to make a vain person like me understand

…

he’d keep on gazing at me

with a look that reserved for me alone

all his sweet and shaggy life,

always near me, never troubling me,

and asking nothing.”

- Pablo Neruda, A Dog Has Died

“So perhaps whatever beauty of life still remains to me is contained in some moment of surrender, abasement and humiliation.”

- Oscar Wilde, De Profundis