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"Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?"

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🇫🇷Guy Debord

Philosophy

Situationist International

1931–1994

"With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning."

"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."

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🇺🇸Charles Taze Russell

Politics

Bible Student movement

1852–1916

"We claim no infallibility for our presentations."

"There is no War on Terrorism; it is The Great Game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all."

"The film moves at what I consider to be the speed of art — which is slow. Cremaster 2 does what I think sculpture does: It moves slowly and requires that one move around it to understand it, and to visit it repeatedly."

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🇦🇹Johannes Grenzfurthner

Entertainment

b. 1975

"Strange to see radical anti-Semites using Facebook. I'd like to call that Zuckerberg's Paradox."

"The flourishing of bursts of energy dies beyond us."

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🇫🇷Henri Cartier-Bresson

Art

humanistic photography

1908–2004

"We had a certain idea of our work, a respect for others, and above all, not to be paparazzi. For the photographer, curiosity is essential, the terrible counterpart is indiscretion, which is a lack of restraint."

"There’s no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist. It’s not like becoming a doctor or something. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist."

"I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things."

"Terrorism is not justified with anything, but it’s explained with everything."

"Isn't it human to go beyond the limits, to grow beyond oneself, to strive toward freedom! The round is free."

"Landscapes are about beauty and death. The only way you can define beauty.. ..is to know that death is hiding behind it. This is what haunts you when you’re doing a so-called landscape painting."

"We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation."

"I just...the world just...it's just different. It changes every day."

"I'd never trust anyone who hadn't spent at least one night of his youth in the local jail. The more hell you raise as a teen-ager, the sweeter your memories will be."

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🇫🇷Jean Cocteau

Literature

theatre of the absurd

1889–1963

"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."

"A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him."

"The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function."

"People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know."

"Find me in the shadows, and pull the shades down until tomorrow."

"If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you."

"Events are weapons for politicization of art."

"Love... I guess It is some kind of magic, It has a power to make us better... But magic can sometimes be an illusion."

"There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps I'm luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good."

"I would do anything for corn." "Well I think corn just did something for you."

"There is a climate in which violence towards farmers is being romanticized by politicians"

"Atomic physics, was the worst thing that happened in the 20th century."

"For me personally, the greatest art to date has been created in New York and the most uptight and conventional art in Berlin. Obviously, I am an exception to this rule!"

"'How can you exploitation?' 'How can you like the complete mechanization of work?' 'How can you like bad art?' I have to answer that I accept it as being there, in the world."

"No - aw, no, no, no! Aw, no! Auh, I feel so bad! But remember, guys: this is just a game…" "Nhhhh… That's awful!" "Jeezus! Stop that, lady!"

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