Mirror; dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1975

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The price of loving someone very much is never loving anyone again.

— Mina Loy

Udo Kier

* 14.10.1944 - † 23.11.2025

Die größten Dinge, die ich je gemacht habe,
sind die Dinge, die ich nicht gemacht habe.

The only way you will ever awaken is through the silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily.

— Robert Adams

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Ich bin altmodisch. Ich bin ein Mann mit einer alten Seele.

— Oskar Werner

Homayoun Ershadi

* 06.03.1947 - † 11.11.2025

You exist as an idea in your mind.

— Shunryu Suzuki

Farewell and Ataraxia,

Klaus Doldinger

* 12.05.1936 - † 16.10.2025

It is almost unimportant whether a work finds an understanding audience. One has to do it because one believes that it is the right thing to do. We are not only here to please.

— Pina Bausch

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You cannot use somebody else's map to find yourself.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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Robert Redford

* 18.08.1936 - † 16.09.2025

I don't remember yesterday. Today it rained.

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive.

— Haruki Murakami

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On the set of Mirror; dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1975

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I was with them and yet I was alone.

— Albert Camus

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The best people are the ones you never meet.

— Charles Bukowski

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It is important that you go alone, almost as though you are coming to a ruin. You go through it and these things are your discovery.

— James Turrell; on Roden Crater

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Paris, 1973

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In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life — suffering, horror, love, loss, hate — all of it.

— Harry Dean Stanton

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It's very important to me that you use your soul.

— Gabriela Mistral