My personal circle of freedom

Forgotten goodies digging...

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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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“I was only 13, and all I'd ever seen until then were dead bodies. I thought that was the way things had to be. It was normal. I didn't care about anything. I thought, if I survive, I just want one thing: 5 loaves of bread to eat. That's all. But I dreamed, too, that if I survived, I'd be the only one left in the world, not another soul. Just me. One.”

Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann

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“Why do you smile all the time?”

“What do you want me to do? Cry? Sometimes you smile, sometimes you cry. And if you’re alive, it’s better to smile. Everything in me died in Chelmno, but I’m only human, and I want to live, so I must forget.”

Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann

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Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever...I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says: 'HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN'

David F. Wallace in Infinite Jest

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Andrew Hultkrans on Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan

A CONFESSION: I am a lapsed preppy. Using the term feels false, though—an affectation—as I was not a prep school/Ivy League legacy, which was the defining

“My internal perspective on that milieu, when I was in it, was fairly well represented by Metropolitan’s Tom Townsend, the slightly pretentious, intellectually self-serious character of “limited resources” and left-leaning impulses who has to rent his tuxedo (the shame) and is nominally of that world but forever outside of it.“

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Wild at heart (1990) dir. David Lynch

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“Where do all the songs come from?”

“Life, unfortunately.”

Crazy heart (2009) dir. Scott Cooper

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“The things you own end up owning you.”

Fight club (1999) dir. David Fincher

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“Alright, I’ll dance with you. But you’ve got to promise.”

“What’s that?”

“No chickens!”

Angel heart (1987) dir. Alan Parker

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“Do you want any of this?”

“Oh, no no no. You must eat all of that to make yourself strong.”

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“Do you want your orange?”

Marvin’s room (1996) dir. Jerry Zaks

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I’ve never actually wondered how many faces there are. There are a great many people, but there are even more faces because each person has several. There are those who wear one face for years on end; naturally, it starts to wear, it gets dirty, it breaks at the folds, it becomes stretched like gloves that are kept for traveling. These are thrifty, simple people; they don’t change their faces, and never for once would they have them cleaned. It’s good enough, they maintain, and who can convince them otherwise? Admittedly, since they have several faces, the question now arises: what do they do with the others?

Rainer Maria Rilke,

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (via sleepydrummer)

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“I miss London life”

The hours (2002) dir. Stephen Daldry

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“Our hydrangea bush is doing very well. See?”

“l bet that they're beautiful. Mother planted this when we were very young. Sarah, do you realize that we are both older now than Mother was when she died?”

“She loved the garden.”

The Whales of August (1987) dir. Lindsay Anderson