Es ist, wie ich sagte. Diese Tage sind vorbei.

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

— Leonard Cohen

She was to be a shooting star; she flickered briefly in the void, she continued the inevitable trajectory of the meteor, downward.

— Angela Carter

Sie verstand Duke Ellington.

I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying.

— Pablo Neruda

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

— Glenn Gould

I belong to my destiny and no one else.

— Hermann Hesse

Part of manifestation practice is what you let go of rather than what you add.

— Eckhart Tolle

Gregor Schneider, HAUS u r, 12/2021

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Above all, don't lie to yourself.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Marcello Mastroianni

The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. The science never gets as far as the strangeness. The more sophisticated my equipment, the stranger the worlds it detects.

— Jeanette Winterson

Ich war ein hemmungsloser Individualist, ich bin immer noch ein Individualist und kann auch für mich selber am hemmungslosen Individualismus festhalten. Aber wenn ich betrachte, was rings um mich geschieht, dann stellen sich mir gewisse Fragen. Ich bin zu der Auffassung gekommen, dass in einer Gesellschaft der Anomie, in der es also keine Regeln gibt, an die sich die Menschen halten können oder wollen, auch Fortschritt nicht mehr möglich ist.

— Ralf Dahrendorf

Dragnet Girl; dir. by Yasujirō Ozu in 1933

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Lützelberger hat Kunden beobachtet, wie sie sich bei Musik von der CD im Sessel nach vorn beugen, "weil sie sich anstrengen müssen, alles zu hören und im Kopf die Details zu ergänzen, die sie nicht hören". Legt er danach eine Platte auf, lehnen sich die Leute entspannt zurück.

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Jean-Luc Godard visiting the grave of Kenki Mizoguchi, 1966

I'll wear black. It goes with your songs.

― Agnés Varda

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— Leo Tolstoy

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

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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