from Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
Read the sign / Above the door / It’s not for everyone
Broadcast, “The Book Lovers”
January 10, 2012
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from La Ville des Pirates (Raúl Ruiz, 1983)
January 10, 2012
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from Le temps retrouvé (Raúl Ruiz, 1999)
March 18, 2011
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from Dans Paris (Christophe Honoré, 2006)
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ALLEN: I have nothing to talk about, I’m boring. That I know. I’ve been told before, so don’t tell me it’s not true. ‘Cause it’s a fact. I bore people. People look at me and they get bored. People listen to me and they zone out… bored. “Who is that boring person?”, they think, “I have never before met anyone so boring.”
from Happiness (Todd Solondz, 1998)
photo: Vassilis Kantas
February 21, 2011
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Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development, and, if possible, prevent the formation, of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
February 20, 2011
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Bertrand Russell’s Message to the Future
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And I heard of that japanese girl
Who jumped into the volcano
Was she trying to make it back,
Back into the womb of the world?
Beck, ‘Volcano’ (Modern Guilt, 2008)
