Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: One must educate oneself.

— Marjane Satrapi

Love her, but leave her wild.

— Atticus Finch

Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.

— Warsan Shire

Desires are already memories.

— Italo Calvino

Understand me. I'm not like an ordinary world. [...] and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

— Charles Bukowski

Isabelle Adjani | Sam Neill

Possession; dir. by Andrzej Żuławski in 1981

Any film that can be described in words, isn't really a film.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

— Isaac Asimov

Hamburg; revisited.

The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we carry along with us almost unnoticed, and meet up with again in dreams; finally, after it has for a long time lain modestly in our heart, it takes complete possession of us, filling our eyes with tears, our hearts with longing. What do we long for when we see beauty? To be beautiful. We think much happiness must be connected with it. But that is an error.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Durch die Nacht mit Christiane F. ...

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

— John Steinbeck

The hand has the richest articulation of space.

— Eduardo Chillida

Remembrance is a form of meeting.

— Khalil Gibran

Sven Nykvist | Andrei Tarkovsky

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, by Michal Leszczylowski, 1988

Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Durch die Nacht mit Kommissar 00 Schneider ...

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

— Hermann Hesse

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

— Mark Twain

The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

— Marcel Proust

Johnny Depp

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, directed by Terry Gilliam in 1998

What the fuck are these people talking about?

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Meine Intelligenz wird hier nicht gewürdigt.

— Maximilian Lenz; im Gespräch mit Hajo Schumacher

Dieser Typ tritt so leise ab, wie er laut angefangen hat.

— Götz George; über Horst Schimanski

Aki Kaurismäki on Yasujirō Ozu ...

Tokyo-Ga, directed by Wim Wenders in 1985

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Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.

— Robert Tew

We people can only live in illusions — without them we simply cannot survive. Because there is no meaning in the world. There is absolutely no meaning. We only live in the illusion and from illusions.

— Anselm Kiefer

Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you. Read it over. Again. Let those words resonate in your mind.

— Nayyirah Waheed

James Turrell

You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.

— Peter Carey