Dr. Eldon Tyrell is on point.

Having no talent is no longer enough.

— Gore Vidal

Ozu had a kind of loneliness about him. This loneliness showed in his films. No matter how cheerful he acted — and I don't mean he was putting it on, because he had a truly bright side, too. He enjoyed himself. He liked to do fun things. But at the same time, there was always this loneliness. That's why I believed in him. Artists without an air of loneliness are boring.

— Kon Hidemi

back in bed.

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: Love is eternal.

— E. M. Forster

But memory of landscape is not always associated with pleasure. It can be associated sometimes with loss, with pain, with social fracture and a sense of belonging gone, although the memory remains, albeit poignantly.

— Ken Taylor

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Ja, hier Düsseldorf.

100

My heart is a lonely hunter.

We turn to silence when we are tired
of translating this existence.

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You and I knew strange corners of life.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gregor Schneider | Sterberaum | Staatstheater Darmstadt, 2021

Livestream; 28.01.2021, 21:00 Uhr – 31.01.2021, 10:30 Uhr

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Silence again, multiplied.

— Louise Glück

I feel myself shutting down, closing off, like I should tell people, "No, we don't use this heart anymore. It's too fragile."

— Courtney C. Stevens

Korrespondenz.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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It was in the year 2020.

I like being alone. I have control over my own shit. Therefore, in order to win me over, your presence has to feel better than my solitude. You're not competing with another person, you are competing with my comfort zones.

― Horacio Jones

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Jahreswechsel.

No one can see me from where I look.

— Francesca Woodman

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We grow. It hurts at first.

— Sylvia Plath

#fotogen

There are a few great souls in my life. They are not many. They are few. You are one.

— Anne Sexton

Reality? Reality has never been enough for me.

— Virginia Woolf

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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

― Tacitus

You often feel tired, not because you've done so much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.

— Alexander den Heijer

Gregor Schneider | Tote Räume | Den Haag, 2020

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The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur.

— Fernando Pessoa

Diego Maradona

* 30.10.1960 - † 25.11.2020

In der Stadt war man Demütigungen gewohnt, man lebte mit ihnen [...]. Maradona hat dieses Gefühl der Schmach, das die Stadt immer und immer wieder erlitt, verstanden. Er hat das nachgefühlt, der Arbeitersohn aus Villa Fiorito, dem Armenviertel am Rande von Buenos Aires. Der Trotz, es all jenen zu zeigen, die mit dem Finger auf die Schmuddelkinder weisen, der hat ihn und die Stadt vereint.

— Peter Ahrens

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If you can't save yourself, nobody can.

— Cesare Pavese