I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone – as it seems to me – is in danger.
- Andrei Tarkovsky
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
―Jorge Luis Borges
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
-Zora Neale Hurston
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He who laughs has not yet received the terrible news.
Brecht
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
-Tennessee Williams
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If you wanna fly, you gotta give up the shit that weighs you down.
-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
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The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work.
-Toni Morrison
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“My longing has no time when it ceases.”
~ Anonymous eighth-century Japanese poet
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Count Kortzybski, he of General Semantics, pointed out than “man is the time-binding animal”. This Polish-American was quoted by Godard and Burroughs but otherwise seems to have left little trace.
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