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    André Malraux
    “The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.”
    ― Andre Malraux
    tags: advertising, diet-industry, fashion-industry, marketing, self-esteem, self-hatred
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    André Malraux
    “I seek the crucial region of the soul where absolute Evil and fraternity clash.”
    ― Andre Malraux
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    Werner Herzog
    “Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.”
    ― Werner Herzog
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    Werner Herzog
    “I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder.”
    ― Werner Herzog
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    Werner Herzog
    “There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.”
    ― Werner Herzog, Herzog on Herzog: Conversations with Paul Cronin
    tags: cinema-verite
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    Susan Sontag
    “My library is an archive of longings.”
    ― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
    tags: books, library, longing
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    Susan Sontag
    “All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Susan Sontag
    “Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor
    tags: depression, melancholy
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    Susan Sontag
    “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: art, art-criticism, criticism, critique, intelligence, interpretation, scholars, scholarship
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    Susan Sontag
    “Sanity is a cozy lie.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: sanity
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    Susan Sontag
    “Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Susan Sontag
    “Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.”
    ― Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
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    Susan Sontag
    “I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.”
    ― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
    tags: solitude
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    “I used to think I was the strangest person in the world
    but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do
    I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too.
    well, I hope that if you are out there you read this and know that yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
    ― Rebecca Katherine Martin
    tags: bizarre, feel, flawed, hope, imgaine, know, misattributed-frida-kahlo, people, person, read, strangest, think-strange, thought, world
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    Frida Kahlo
    “I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    Frida Kahlo
    “I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
    tags: art, dreams, inspirational, nightmares, painting
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    Frida Kahlo
    “Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    Frida Kahlo
    “I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    Frida Kahlo
    “I paint flowers so they will not die.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    Frida Kahlo
    “I want to be inside your darkest everything”
    ― Frida Kahlo, The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
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    Frida Kahlo
    “I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
    tags: madness, reality
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    Frida Kahlo
    “The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
    tags: ambition, america, fame
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    Frida Kahlo
    “You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
    ― sylvia plath
    tags: goals
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    Sylvia Plath
    “The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: depression-silence
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    Sylvia Plath
    “And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: confidences, secrets, sharing-secrets
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: poetry
    4336 likes



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