Andrei Tarkovsky’s “STALKER” (1979)

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… sometimes blocked in, sometimes reaching out,
one moment your life is a stone in you, the next a star.

Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Sunset” in Selected Poems, trans. Robert Bly

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case.

The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Magnetism

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I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for someone to wear them.

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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This is death, death, death, she noted in the margin of her mind; when illusion fails.

Virginia Woolf, Between The Acts

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Susan Sontag

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Those who control the past, control the future: who controls the present controls the past.

“1984” by Eric Blair aka. George Orwell.

I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

Charles Bukowski

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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Socrates

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Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Josephine Hart

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Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 21 April 1918

I think everyone’s bisexual to some degree or another; it’s just a question of whether or not you choose to recognize it and embrace it. Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.

Björk

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