“I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.”
― The Collector
― The Collector
“I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.”
― The Collector
― The Collector
“Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?”
― The Collector
― The Collector
“When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies.”
― The Collector
― The Collector
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