Tag Archives: Quote

Vocabulary

By Jessie | Published: June 4, 2010 Leave a comment
If people bring so much courage to this world, the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break, it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and [...]
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Nabokov

By Jessie | Published: March 28, 2010 Leave a comment
“I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness.  Unless a film of flesh envelopes us, we die.  Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings.  The cranium is a space-traveler’s helmet.  Stay inside or you perish.  Death is divestment, [...]
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Home

By Jessie | Published: March 27, 2010 Leave a comment
“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing – to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from – my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it [...]
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Rilke

By Jessie | Published: January 17, 2010 Leave a comment
July 16, 1903 Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, Like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to [...]
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Blessed are they that mourn

By Jessie | Published: January 17, 2010 Leave a comment
“Admit the void; accept loss forever.  Freedom in the use of symbolism comes from the capacity to experience loss.  Wisdom is mourning; blessed are they that mourn.” – Jack Kerouac
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Crossed paths

By Jessie | Published: December 17, 2009 Leave a comment
“Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths [...]
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Alienation

By Jessie | Published: December 12, 2009 Leave a comment
Photography is the product of complete alienation. – Marcel Proust
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Kubrick on film

By Jessie | Published: October 22, 2009 Comments closed
“A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” — Stanley Kubrick I think this is an interesting quote by Kubrick and representative of how his films irrevocably changed the relationship between [...]
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