I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And — I was really — I was alive.

— Walter White

I have a strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate, it's apathy — it's not giving a damn.

— Leo Buscaglia

I like revisiting, at certain times, spots where I was once happy; I like to shape the present in the image of the irretrievable past.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Franz Kafka an Milena Jesenská, 29. Juli 1920

The wreckage of stars — I built a world from this wreckage.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Sir, the reality of your world is nothing more than a rotten caricature of great opera.

— Fitzcarraldo

Die Kunst aber wäre, Heimweh zu haben ob man gleich zu Hause ist. Dazu muss man sich auf Illusion verstehen. Das ist die Formel des Interieurs.

— Søren Kierkegaard

You left something behind; one of those things that absence, time or any other terrible reality can never take away. Empty space is not always empty.

— Adam Stanley

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Images […] are not primarily manifestations of the properties of a certain technical medium, but operations: Relations between a whole and parts; between a visibility and a power of signification and affect associated with it; between expectations and what happens to meet them.

— Jacques Rancière

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The opposite of loneliness is not togetherness, it's intimacy.

— Richard Bach

Klaus Kinski ist Fitzcarraldo; dir. by Werner Herzog in 1982

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

— Robert Brault

Au cœur de la nuit avec Karl Bartos et Benjamin Biolay ...

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

— Denise Levertov

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There's beauty to be found in Particle Physics ...

People understand me so poorly, that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

— Søren Kierkegaard