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" I hope I never get so old I get religious. "
Ingmar Bergman
Old
Religion
Religious
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" The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal. "
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" I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect. "
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" My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires. "
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" We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive. "
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" The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left. "
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" The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying. "
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