Vilius Dada

“So what? Don't we have enough ugliness already? And don't we know these things already? Why always fight ugliness with ugliness, stupidity wit stupidity, displaying still more and more of it? Why not create something beautiful to fight the ugliness with? Not that I am for escapism (although there is nothing wrong with it). René Clair was not an escapist in A Nous la Liberté. And Chaplin never was. No poet ever is. Neither are tulips, willow trees, Louise Brooks, or cranes. But they fight ugliness just by being there, by emanating beauty, peace, truth.”
― Jonas Mekas, Movie Journal: The Rise of a New American Cinema, 1959-1971

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”
― David Hume

“Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.”
― Emil Cioran, All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms

“No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.”
― Jorge Luis Borges