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  • #1
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #2
    Coco Chanel
    “There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”
    Coco Chanel

  • #3
    Emily Dickinson
    “Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #4
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #5
    Tim Kreider
    “We each have a handful of those moments, the ones we take out to treasure only rarely, like jewels, when we looked up from our lives and realized: “I’m happy.”
    Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons

  • #6
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #7
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #8
    Vannetta Chapman
    “Say what's in your heart, Annie.'
    'You're in my heart, Samuel.”
    Vannetta Chapman, A Simple Amish Christmas

  • #9
    Immanuel Kant
    “Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt”
    Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

  • #10
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

  • #11
    Jarod Kintz
    “Hydrogenated and androgynous milky white love is all I have to offer you. Would you like me to pour it in your coffee, or directly into your soul?
”
    Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

  • #12
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #13
    Lao Tzu
    “The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
    The more he gives to others,
    the more he has for his own.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #14
    John Bunyan
    “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
    John Bunyan

  • #15
    Katerina Stoykova Klemer
    “If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.”
    Katerina Stoykova Klemer

  • #16
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.”
    G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men

  • #17
    Sean Penn
    “When everything gets answered, it's fake.”
    Sean Penn

  • #18
    Tim Kreider
    “I still feel at home in Baltimore in a way I will never feel anywhere else—part of the definition of home being a place you don’t belong anymore.”
    Tim Kreider

  • #19
    Gertrude Stein
    “Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #20
    Tim Kreider
    “Ernest Hemingway famously described Paris as “a moveable feast.” Baltimore is more like a permanent hangover. Once you have lived there, you will never be entirely sober again.”
    Tim Kreider

  • #21
    Salvador Dalí
    “Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”
    Salvador Dali

  • #22
    Derek Jarman
    “Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!”
    Derek Jarman, Dancing Ledge

  • #23
    Krzysztof Kieślowski
    “We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.”
    Krzysztof Kieslowski
    tags: film

  • #24
    “Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out”
    Martin Scorsese

  • #25
    Ingmar Bergman
    “Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
    Ingmar Bergman

  • #26
    Alain de Botton
    “The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”
    Alain de Botton

  • #27
    Roger Ebert
    “It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.”
    Roger Ebert

  • #28
    “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
    Elizabeth Appell

  • #29
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

  • #30
    Anaïs Nin
    “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
    Anaïs Nin



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