David Claessen

“The link between man and the world is broken. Henceforth, this link must become an object of belief: it is the impossible which can only be restored within a faith. Belief is no longer addressed to a different or transformed world. Man is in the world as if in a pure optical and sound situation. The reaction of which man has been dispossessed can be replaced only by belief. Only belief in the world can reconnect man to what he sees and hears. The cinema must film, not the world, but belief in this world, our only link.”
― Gilles Deleuze, The Time-Image

“We’re not dreamers. We’re awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. We’re not destroying anything. We’re watching the system destroy itself.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

“Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity