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“Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.”
― Harmony Korine

“De passage, me voici deux fois vainqueur et doublement déçu, pour promener par le monde une absence éternelle.”
― Stanislas Rodanski

“Some people dreamed of a cinema that would give us the magnificent but frightening economy of fiction, of its characters and its artificial time — a cinema that would be one with our own presence, unfolding in a perpetual offering, in that thickness proper to reality given by the unique freedom granted to every individual.

Others dreamed of a cinema that would be the miracle of doubles reunited once more at their origin — simple, unique, placed without the escapes of thought and with all the power of the senses. A cinema after which we would never be the same again.”
― André Bazin, What is Cinema? Volume I

“L’ésotérisme de l’écriture suppose la permanence d’un secret recroquevillé au centre de labyrinthes visibles.”
― Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences