It's always February 2nd, and there's nothing I can do about it.

— Punxsutawney Phil

After the earth dies, some five billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being — and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.

— Carl Sagan

Ryū Chishū visiting the grave of Yasujirō Ozu in Tokyo.

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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

— Joseph Campbell

Bruno Ganz | Otto Sander

Der Himmel über Berlin, dir. by Wim Wenders in 1987

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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Mit 15 Jahren bin ich überall hingegangen und wollte mitspielen. Und die von Kraftwerk waren so nett, mich eines Abends im Jugendzentrum Papestraße in Essen auch zu lassen. Ralf Hütter sagte zu mir: "Spiel ruhig, ich komme erst nachher." Dann habe ich mit Charly Weiss gespielt — ich am Elektroklavier, er an den Drums — sozusagen als Vorgruppe von Kraftwerk. Irgendwann kamen Ralf Hütter und Florian Schneider zu uns auf die Bühne und spielten noch ein bisschen mit. Nach einer gewissen Zeit musste ich aber gehen.

— Helge Schneider

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Edgar Froese

* 06.06.1944 - † 20.01.2015

There is no death, just a change of our cosmic address.

— Edgar Froese

Wuppertal; revisited.

There's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

— Brad Meltzer

Romy Schneider, 1966

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Every moment is a poem if you hold it right.

— Lauren Zuniga

Julie Christie | Omar Sharif

Doctor Zhivago, dir. by David Lean in 1965

I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed it's beauty to them.

— Boris Pasternak

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, it is an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history.

— Naomi Wolf

[Feel the Juche; thank.]

Spend your time on those who love you unconditionally. Don't waste it on those that only love you when the conditions are right for them.

— Samir Shah

Maybe this is what it's all about. You love a person for as long as you possibly can until you run out of love. You love them even when they don't love you. And then you can leave, as quietly as you came, knowing that you gave all you had, knowing that you couldn't have been any more than what you were and that it was pure, that it was full and that you were honest with it all.

— Azra

Solaris, dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972

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The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: Only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person — without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

— Osho

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality.

— Margaret Halsey

Saalverhaftung; Landgericht Essen, Saal 101

There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

— Jack Kerouac

Hamburg; revisited.

Die Qualität eines Werkes kann weder durch die Bedingungen, unter denen es ausgestellt wird, noch durch die Anzahl der Leute, die es ansehen, verändert werden.

— Donald Judd

Sanctions? Bring them on, suckers.

The woman who doesn't need validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet.

— Mohadesa Najumi