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May 25, 2012
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Trying to Fall Asleep
She slipped under the quilt, turning on her side and facing the wall to prove she was serious. Slowly now, into that helpless half life of self-commentary, the voice film that runs between light and dark. But the time eventually came when she had to admit she was still awake.
- From Mao II
May 20, 2012
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May 16, 2012
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Since the risk of giving offence arises principally from the difficulty of appreciating what does and what does not pass unnoticed, we ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people’s views are never in accordance with our own. If, when we discover the true lives of other people, the real world beneath the world of appearance, we get as many surprises as on visiting a house of plain exterior which inside is full of hidden treasures, torture-chambers or skeletons, we are no less surprised if, in place of the image that we have of ourselves as a result of all the things that people have said to us, we learn from the way they speak of us in our absence what an entirely different image they have been carrying in their minds of us and of our lives.Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove (via postoutpost)
Apr 10, 2012
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Jan 8, 2012
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Safe (1995, Todd Haynes)
It is only when the mind, which has taken shelter behind the walls of self-protection, frees itself from its own creations that there can be that exquisite reality. After all, these walls of self-protection are the creations of the mind which, conscious of its insufficiency, builds these walls of protection, and behind them takes shelter. One has built up these barriers unconsciously or consciously, and one’s mind is so crippled, bound, held, that action brings greater conflict, further disturbances. So the mere search for the solution of your problems is not going to free the mind from creating further problems. As long as this centre of self-protectiveness, born of insufficiency, exists, there must be disturbances, tremendous sorrow and pain; and you cannot free the mind of sorrow by disciplining it not to be insufficient. […] You cannot compel it; you cannot force it; it cannot be influenced by an ideal, by a fear, by the pursuit of enjoyment and powers. - J. Krishnamurti
Be still and know that I am God - Psalm 46:10
Jan 4, 2012
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Dec 28, 2011
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Good Morning (1959, Yasujiro Ozu)
To create meaning is very easy, our whole mass culture elaborates meaning all day long; to suspend meaning is already an infinitely more complicated enterprise—it is an art. - Roland Barthes
Dec 28, 2011
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In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-Wai)
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.
- D. H. Lawrence
Dec 26, 2011
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Dec 16, 2011
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Faces (1968, John Cassavetes)
This way of experiencing is not about ideas. It’s the opposite of ideas. It takes place before ideas form. It may generate ideas, but they come later. This kind of experience is about getting into the very roots of perception, before ideas organize it. When I am watching Faces or A Woman Under the Influence, I feel like I am seeing the world under a microscope. I am given powers. Not knowledge. Power. My brain is being adjusted to notice things in a different, more intense, more rapid way than it normally functions. All great art is about getting beyond knowledge in this way. It’s about having your mental processes shifted into completely unnatural, hyper-aware, nonintellectual modes of functioning. - Ray Carney
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