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Her drama was a drama not of h...

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

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La memoria no guarda pelГ­cula...

La memoria no guarda pelГ­culas, guarda fotografГ­as.

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For existential mathematics, w...

For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.

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The purpose of the poetry is n...

The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.

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Any new possibility that exist...

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

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As you live out your desolatio...

As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.

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At the end of true love is dea...

At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.

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All lovers unconsciously estab...

All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.

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I am not worthy of my sufferin...

I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.

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Remembering now all those fare...

Remembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn't expect much from her re-unions.

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Bacon's portraits are an inter...

Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what degree of distortion does a beloved person still remain a beloved person? For how long does a cherished face growing remote through illness, through madness, through hatred, through death still remain recognizable? Where is the border beyond which a self ceases to be a self?

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A gesture cannot be regarded a...

A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations

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If we cannot accept the import...

If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy

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The serial number of a human s...

The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen

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How could she feel nostalgia w...

How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more

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Pain doesn't listen to reason,...

Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable

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We live everything as it comes...

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

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Business only has two function...

Business only has two functions - innovation and marketing.

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The present era grabs everythi...

The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold.

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Metaphors are dangerous. Metap...

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....