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

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I am a museum full of art,
but you had your eyes shut.

Someone told me the other day that he felt bad for single people because they are lonely all the time. I told him that's not true I'm single and I don't feel lonely. I take myself out to eat, I buy myself clothes. I have great times by myself. Once you know how to take care of yourself company becomes an option and not a necessity.

― Keanu Reeves

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Rutger Hauer in: Vaterland; dir. by Christopher Menaul in 1994

Sternstunden kontrafaktischer Imaginationen.

Freiheit stirbt immer zentimeterweise.

— Karl-Hermann Flach

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侘び

The word wabi does not lend itself readily to translation, for it can mean a number of things: loneliness, desolation, rustic simplicity, quiet taste, a gentle affection for antique, unostentatious, and rather melancholy refinement.

— Yukio Futagawa

Riefenstahl; sqq. *

Elegant sitzen die Kosmopoliten im altehrwürdigen Café Florian.

Sternstunden italienischer Propaganda.

The way you treat yourself is the standard you set for others.

— Sonya Friedman

Collect moments; not things.

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Memories, no matter how small or inconsequential, are the pages that define us.

— Sarah Winman

The Green Room; dir. by François Truffaut, 1978

Der allerschlimmste Feind für mich bin ich.

Er hatte sich vergeudet. Es war, als wäre er verglüht.

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People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world — all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.

— Carl Jung

Remembering is only a new form of suffering.

— Charles Baudelaire

We called it Voight Kampff for short.

We lived harder. Knew better. But we laughed anyway. Laughed because there was nothing else to do but give up.

— Michelle Hodkin

back in bed.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started. At the best times, something wakens, there's an almost physical quickening.

— Seamus Heaney

From Paris; with love ...

But why not be silent, patient, and watchful like a photographer? And why not admit the underlying fact? Photography tends to show, to describe, much more than it can explain.

— Michael Almereyda

Wenn zu meiner Zeit jemand Halloween gesagt hat,
dann war das Eduard Zimmermann zu Peter Nidetzky.

[Heavy rotation.]

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

— Rumi

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

— Willa Cather

Wellenfeldsynthese

Lots of people want to run away, but the ones who really do rarely announce it beforehand: They just go.

— Marieke Lucas Rijneveld