Doch der härteste Weg war ein anderer ...
Vangelis was always immersing himself in work that could feel sentimental to some, but to others felt intensely cathartic, confronting and expressing raw, tangible sensations.
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In the end, people are emotions.
You and the universe arose from the same source.
— Eckhardt Tolle
Vangelis
* 29.03.1943 - † 17.05.2022
I like to immerse myself in all the sounds,
all the possibilities, all the universes.
It showed him the eternal error people make in imagining that happiness is the realization of desires.
— Leo Tolstoy
Not friends, not enemies;
just strangers with some memories.
To be seriously alive is to have scars.
— John Steinbeck
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Energy flows where intention goes.
Klaus Schulze
* 04.08.1947 - † 26.04.2022
It's not about me, it's about the music.
Museums function, partly by design and partly in spite of themsevles, as monuments to the fragility of cultures, to the fall of sustaining institutions and noble houses, the collapse of rituals, the evacuation of myths, the destructive effects of warfare, neglect, and corrosive doubt.
— Stephen J. Greenblatt
Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.
— Frida Kahlo
Louise Bourgeois | Maman | 2015
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
— Seneca the Younger
Have you ever seen a film called the Mirror? I was hypnotised! I've seen it 20 times, It's the closest I've got to a religion – to me he is God. And if I didn't dedicate the film to Tarkovsky, then everyone would say I was stealing from him. If you are stealing, then dedicate. I have stolen so much from Tarkovsky over the years; in order not to get arrested, I had to dedicate the film to him. I should have done it a long time ago.
— Lars von Trier
Romy
Only in the pursuit of failure can a person really be free. Losers may be the avant garde of the modern age.
— Sheila Heti
Isabelle Adjani | Sam Neill
Possession; dir. by Andrzej Żuławski in 1981
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The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the nothingness of what goes on.
— Slavoj Žižek
John Berger
This silence in myself, this silence which finally frees me from everything.
— Albert Camus
People are bored everywhere now.
But boredom comes from within.
If you've got an inner life,
you're never bored.