larvatus prodeo

Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. […] They are the flying buttresses of the temple raised to commemorate the wisdom of the architect that is also the wisdom of all the sages, from Brahma to Leopardi, the wisdom that consists not in the satisfaction but in the ablation of desire:
            “In noi di cari inganni
             non che la speme, il desiderio è spento.”