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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Hay algo en el generoso y abnegado amor de un animal que llega directamente al corazón de aquel que con frecuencia a probado la falsa amistad y la frágil fidelidad del hombre".”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
    tags: logic, love
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    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel
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    Alain de Botton
    “The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: emotions, film, humanity, philosophy
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    André Bazin
    “The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.”
    ― André Bazin
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    André Bazin
    “The preoccupation of Rossellini when dealing with the face of the child in Allemania Anno Zero is the exact opposite of that of Kuleshov with the close-up of Mozhukhin. Rossellini is concerned to preserve its mystery.”
    ― André Bazin, What is Cinema?: Volume 1
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    André Bazin
    “it was montage that gave birth to film as an art, setting it apart from mere animated photography, in short, creating a language.”
    ― André Bazin, What is Cinema?: Volume 1
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    André Bazin
    “Reality is not art, but a realist art is one that can create an integral aesthetic of reality.”
    ― André Bazin, What is Cinema? Volume I
    tags: art, cinema, realism, reality
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    André Bazin
    “Undoubtedly the novel has means of its own—language not the image is its material, its intimate effect on the isolated reader is not the same as that of a film on the crowd in a darkened cinema—but precisely for these reasons the differences in aesthetic structure make the search for equivalents an even more delicate matter, and thus they require all the more power of invention and imagination from the film-maker who is truly attempting a resemblance. One”
    ― André Bazin, What is Cinema?: Volume 1
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    André Bazin
    “When the essence of a scene demands the simultaneous presence of two or more factors in the action, montage is ruled out.” It can reclaim its right to be used, however, whenever the import of the action no longer depends on physical contiguity even though this may be implied. For example, it was all right for Lamorisse to show, as he did, the head of the horse in close-up, turning obediently in the boy’s direction, but he should have shown the two of them in the same frame in the preceding shot.”
    ― André Bazin, What is Cinema?: Volume 1
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    André Bazin
    “Italian cinema is assuredly the only one to salvage, from within the very period it depicts a revolutionary humanism.”
    ― André Bazin, André Bazin and Italian Neorealism
    tags: amazing
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    André Bazin
    “The image - its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism - has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last, the equal of the novelist”
    ― André Bazin, What is Cinema? Volume I
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    André Bazin
    “In point of fact, now that sound has given proof that it came not to destroy but to fulfill the Old Testament of the cinema, we may most properly ask if the technical revolution created by the sound track was in any sense an aesthetic revolution.”
    ― André Bazin, What is Cinema?: Volume 1
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    William Shakespeare
    “My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
    My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
    The more I have, for both are infinite.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: friend, honesty
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    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
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  • #23
    Kate Bolick
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
    ― Kate Bolick, Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Syd Field
    “Action is character. What a person does is what he is, not what he says.”
    ― Syd Field, Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting Paperback – November 29, 2005
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
    tags: freedom, solitude
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    Stephen King
    “we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.”
    ― Stephen King, Danse Macabre
    tags: ghost-stories, stephen-king
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  • #30
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft
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  • #33
    George R.R. Martin
    “Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.”

    “What . . . what game?”

    “The only game. The game of thrones.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
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