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“These days, it’s easy to feel that we’ve fallen out of connection with one another and with the earth and with reason and with love. I mean: we have. But to read, to write, is to say that we still believe in, at least, the possibility of connection.”
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
“don’t know what my life is about and don’t examine it. My life will define itself as I live it. The movies will define themselves as I make them.”
― Making Movies
― Making Movies
“For the ruling class, in general, politics is a question of aesthetics: a way of seeing themselves, of seeing the world, of constructing a personality. For us it was life or death.”
― Qui a tué mon père
― Qui a tué mon père
“The things we remember most clearly are always those that bring us shame.”
― Histoire de la violence
― Histoire de la violence
“What we call history is nothing but the story of the same emotions, the same joys, reproduced across bodies and time”
― Qui a tué mon père
― Qui a tué mon père
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