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Albert Camus
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus

Friedrich Nietzsche
“Let the youthful soul look back on life with the question: what have you truly loved up to now, what has elevated your soul, what has mastered it and at the same time delighted it? Place these venerated objects before you in a row, and perhaps they will yield for you, through their nature and their sequence, a law, the fundamental law of your true self. Compare these objects, see how one complements, expands, surpasses, transfigures another, how they form a stepladder upon which you have climbed up to yourself as you are now; for your true nature lies, not hidden deep within you, but immeasurably high above you, or at least above that which you normally take to be yourself.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: art

Werner Herzog
“Roll up your sleeves and work as a bouncer in a sex club or a warden in a lunatic asylum or a machine operator in a slaughterhouse. Drive a taxi for six months and you’ll have enough money to make a film. Walk on foot, learn languages and a craft or trade that has nothing to do with cinema. Filmmaking — like great literature — must have experience of life at its foundation. Read Conrad or Hemingway and you can tell how much real life is in those books.”
Werner Herzog

year in books
Cameron...
300 books | 9 friends

David M...
155 books | 23 friends

Cammi
684 books | 440 friends

Bateman...
125 books | 7 friends

Daniel ...
71 books | 12 friends

Ellie W...
227 books | 10 friends



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