"The only past that is real is that which is contained in people's heads and when they die the past dies with them. Those that come after cannot inherit the experience, only preserve the myth of its extistence."

Nabakov

Do not you, too, be strict with me,
Or tease me with the mask you wear.
In my dark memory, do not touch
That other, far more terrible fire

Alexandr Blok

Helmut Newton and his macarbre glamour