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"What is least fascinating in [religious] sanctuaries are the images and objects. They bear too much of a resemblance to the rest of reality. They try to tear themselves away from it and end up sinking back into it instead, testifying to the futility of all such efforts. Air, however, closed within a solid form, and space, shaped by vaulting, walls and architectural detail, becomes the most perfect representation of nostalgia. You can walk into it, feel its touch on your skin, but it all flows between your fingers, you can hold it in your lungs, but just for a moment."
Andrzej Stasiuk, "Tales of Galicia"
(translated by Margarita Nafpaktitis)
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