To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of non-understanding, was impossible.

— Franz Kafka

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... a seeker, someone lost and worth finding, someone with a soul contracting.

— Tennessee Williams

Tagebau Fortuna-Garsdorf, Rheinisches Revier

Unser Land NRW, Die Köln-Bonner Bucht, 1986

Ich habe ja irgendwann noch nicht mal mehr die Chance da hinzufahren. Wenn Sie jetzt von einem Ort in den anderen fahren und sagen, das ist mein Geburtsort, das ist mein Heimatort, Sie können ja immer wieder zurück, Sie können ja immer noch mal nach Hause fahren. Die Möglichkeit haben wir nicht mehr. Es ist irgendwann vorbei.

— Hans Goeres

WDR Dokumentation, 2017

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If you can't accept a situation, accept that you can't accept it.

― Eckhart Tolle

Power over others is destructive — always destructive. In a better world anybody who is ambitious, who wants to be more important than others, ahead of others, should be treated psychologically.

— Osho

Elena Mukhina, 1978

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If you're sad and depressed, remember:
You're at the same time on this planet as Kim Jong-Un.

Esfahani beklagte, noch nie bei einem Konzert so gestört worden zu sein wie in Köln, zumindest noch nie "auf so eine lautstarke und fast gewalttätige Art". An Aschermittwoch wird er in Köln wiederum Werke von Steve Reich, darunter "Piano Phase", spielen. Diesmal werden allerdings [deutsch gesprochene] Erläuterungen den Vortrag begleiten.

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[Perlen vor die Säue werfen ...]

To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.

― Fernando Pessoa

[Tell me lies.]

Anna Karina; with bangs and Onassis glasses, as always.

Le Petit Soldat, dir. by Jean-Luc Godard in 1960

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male; the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object — and most particularly an object of vision.

— Helena Goscilo

Kinemathek; Sonntagsfilme.

Gepflegt changierend zw. Arthaus und Trash.

Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.

― Charles Bukowski

Natalia Shaposhnikova, 1978

[Epic one armed hand stand on beam.]

sqq. мастер спорта

The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: You are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.

— Eckhart Tolle

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

— Nikos Kazantzaki

Break often. Not like porcelain, but like waves.

— Scherezade Siobhan

Die Heimholung des Joseph Beuys, 1973

The Greek word for return is nostos. Algos means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

— Milan Kundera

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She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.

— Markus Zusak

On the set of Stalker; dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1979

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Gray is the color of our time.

— Jannis Kounellis

And if you explain it too much,
you loose everything.

Best girlfriend wristwatch ever.

[Feel the Juche; thank.]

Natalia Shaposhnikova, 1979

[Bangs; as always.]

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Schwächen: Du hattest keine. Ich hatte eine. Ich liebte.

― Bertolt Brecht

Richard Jordan ist Strictor Grock; der verlängerte Arm des Protektorates.

Solarfighters; inszeniert von Alan Johnson, 1986

Einer meiner ersten und prägendsten Kinofilme; meisterhafter 1980er Jahre Dystopie-Trash in Vollendung. Für die Filmmusik zeichnet Maurice Jarre verantwortlich. Der guten Ordnung halber: Sarah Douglas (Shandry) spielte zuvor in Falcon Crest die intrigante Sekretärin von Richard Channing.

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

― Don DeLillo

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Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

— Josephine Hart

Tatort Duisburg, Ruhrort; inszeniert von Hajo Gies, 1981

Im schon abgewrackten Ruhrgebiet der 1980er Jahre meldete sich der Kriminalhauptkommissar per Festnetztelefon auf der Dienststelle und informierte die Kollegen, dass er die nächste Stunde wie immer in der Kneipe Bierquelle erreichbar sei und platzierte währenddessen bei ein, zwei gepflegten Pils und belegten Brötchen Pferdewetten. Dazu gab es noch einen kurzen Exkurs, ob man besser auf Trab- oder Galopprennen wetten oder den Wetteinsatz gleich versaufen solle. Episch, authentisch bis ins Detail und nicht kopierbar; echt.

Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum — a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.

— Haruki Murakami

Kinemathek; Sonntagsfilme.

Bonus: En Gasfilm, 1971

You and me and never us.

A complicated series
of almost interactions.

Watch me go ballistic, suckers ...

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It will strike if you let it. It will strike if you understand and accept that it may come from the most unexpected of places.

— Franz Kafka

I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.

— Laurie Helgoe

The Devil Probably, dir. by Robert Bresson in 1977

She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.

— Charles Bukowski

We understand absolutely nothing about modern civilization, if we do not admit at first that it is a universal conspiracy against all interior life.

— Georges Bernanos

Natalia Shaposhnikova, 1979

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There are worlds in you, and I have fallen in love with every one.

— Beau Taplin

Douglas Gordon | As close as you can for as long as it lasts | 2017

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

— Flannery O'Connor

Feierabend.

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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

— Albert Einstein

Maria Schell | Hansjörg Felmy

Tatort Essen, Die Abrechnung; inszeniert von Wolfgang Becker, 1975

Sie? Was wollen Sie denn noch von mir? [Sie haben mich gerufen. — Heinz Haferkamp] Ich? Sicher nicht.

— Evelyn Stürznickel

We've died so many times now, that we can only wonder why we still care.

— Charles Bukowski

We are created by being destroyed.

— Charles Wright

Ride as much or as little, or as long
or as short as you feel. But ride.

— Eddy Merckx

Freedom always exists. You only have to pay the price.

— Henry de Montherlant

Landscapes are the places where different temporalities and memories intersect.

— Adrian M. Chadwick

Er brachte seine schwere Kanonenbatterie bis ans Wolga-Ufer: Der heutige Jurist Dr. Wigand Wüster, damals 22-jähriger Oberleutnant und Batteriechef. Kurz bevor die 6. Armee in Stalingrad von den Russen eingeschlossen wurde, ging er in Urlaub. Er ließ sich dann zu seiner Truppe einfliegen. So kämpfte er bis zum letzten Tage im Jahr 1943, dem bitteren Ende der 6. Armee. Danach ging er in die langjährige Gefangenschaft in Russland.

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