On week-days, in the evenings, I pass windows of people who know nothing: the couple who've been kissing for ten days and waiting people everywhere Nowhere I find the grand beauty I want to live for
I walk around to share my melancholy memories of my plans and yours We're having a good time with pretended complacency and we dedicate ourselves to the sweet doing nothing
We chat and are distracted After the first birds I feel sad and incompetent for the days in the bright light the decay of our lives outside the magic world of the night
Film "La grande bellezza" ("The great beauty", 2013, Paolo Sorrentino)