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"So perhaps in the future you will hold your tongue until you have discovered what the 'surplus population' is, and where it is. It may well be that in the sight of Heaven you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child!"

🎥 'A Christmas Carol', 1984 (dir. Clive Donner)

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"No one down here but the FBI's most unwanted."

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"Did you ride that thing all the way out here to see me?"

"I did, Lyle."

🎥 "The Straight Story", 1999 (dir. David Lynch)

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"Because everything with you is seeing, isn't it? Your primary sensory intake that makes your dream live is seeing. Reflections. Mirrors. Images. You've seen these films, haven't you, my man?"

🎥 "Manhunter", 1986 (dir. Michael Mann)

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"I gave it up! 'Till you showed up with pictures of two dead families, knowing God damn well that I'd imagine families three, four, five and six. Right?"

"You're fucking right I did! And I'd do it again!"

🎥 "Manhunter", 1986 (dir. Michael Mann)

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🎼 RIP Alf

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“'It is my bad luck that this has happened to me.' No, you should rather say: 'It is my good luck that, although this has happened to me, I can bear it without pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearful of the future.'

"Because such a thing could have happened to any man, but not every man could have borne it without pain. So why see more misfortune in the event than good fortune in your ability to bear it?”

📚💬 'Meditations' (c. 161–180), Marcus Aurelius

[cinematic-literature]

The Holdovers (2023) by Alexander Payne

Book title: Meditations (Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν in Ancient Greek; 180 A.D.) by Marcus Aurelius

[blogandmablog]

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life."

📺 "Star Trek: The Next Generation"

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"An evil that great in this beautiful world. Finally, does it matter what the cause?"

"Yes. Because it's our job to stop it."

"Maybe that's all Bob is: the evil that men do. Maybe it doesn't matter what we call it."

🎥 "Twin Peaks" (S2 E09)

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"Samsara is the universal flux wherein beings are doomed to wander for as long as the ego-born delusion of independent existence persists, our world being but an infinitesimal fraction of the whole. Nirvana is the ultimate being-non-being beyond human conception and not to be attained until the last shred of ego-delusion has been discarded.

"Yet samsara and Nirvana are not two! There is no going from one to the other, nor are there any individual beings to make the journey; there is only a falling away of illusion, a sudden recognition of things as they really are, a revelation of the true nature of the self and of all selves that ever could be."

- John Blofeld, Mantras: Sacred Words of Power

🎥 'Twin Peaks: The Return (Part 18)'

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"We are like the dreamer, who dreams and then lives inside the dream. But who is the dreamer?"

🎥 'Twin Peaks: The Return'

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"What's it like, being so in love? I so miss that."

🎥 "Drømmer", (2024) dir. Dag Johan Haugerud

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🔵👁️ "The visions are clear now. I see possible futures, all at once."

🎥 'Dune: Part Two', 2024 (dir. Denis Villeneuve)

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"I'd very much like to be equal to you."

🎥 'Dune: Part Two', 2024 (dir. Denis Villeneuve)

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"The mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks. To introduce this story, let me just say it encompasses the all – it is beyond the fire, though few would know that meaning.

"It is a story of many, but begins with one – and I knew her."

🎥 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me', 1992 (dir. David Lynch)

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"Diane; 11:30 AM, February twenty-fourth. Entering the town of Twin Peaks - five miles south of the Canadian border, twelve miles west of the state line. I’ve never seen so many trees in my life."

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