Wir liebten dieses Land, wir liebten diese Stadt und auf einmal woanders zu wohnen, selbst in Paris, selbst in New York, zwei der aufregendsten Städte der Welt, war nicht das gleiche, war nicht das selbe als die Heimat. Also, die Frage, was ist heute Ihre Heimat, kann ich nicht beantworten, umso mehr als ich überzeugt bin, dass die Heimat mit der Kindheit identisch ist. Es gibt keine neu erworbenen Heimaten.

— Georg Stefan Troller

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When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing.

— Mark Rothko

Taxi Driver; dir. by Martin Scorsese, 1976

You must remember,
if it's in your heart, then it's real.

Watch me go ballistic, suckers.

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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

— Ezra Pound

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It's the soul, that's erotic.

back in bed.

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

— Charles Bukowski

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Do you really believe in these fairy tales? Not in the good ones, but in the terrifying ones, yes.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nаzi or the convinced Cоmmunist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

— Hannah Arendt

the spring in me.

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The freer the soul, more abstract the art.

— Marc Chagall

Ph. by Shinichi Kinugawa

To play it safe is not to play.

— Robert Altman

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Überschreitungen der Pathosgrenze.

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Manche Seelen treffen sich immer wieder.

Resonanzen in Zeit und Raum.

Why do I feel this alone? Basically, because I've always been alone. I've always been alone. And alone I'll be. It's about time I become aware of it and never forget it.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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I met myself in you.