Audrey Hepburn // "I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment."
Agnes Varda // "I need images…I need representation which deals in means other than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time."
Sophie Scholl // "It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn."
Nikki Giovanni // "I hope I die warmed by the life that I tried to live."
Ernest Hemingway // "Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It’s been that way all this year. It’s been that way so many times."
Wendell Berry // "I dream of a quiet man who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows where the rarest wildflowers are blooming, and who goes, and finds that he is smiling not by his own will."
Paul Newman // "I’d like to be remembered as a guy who tried...tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn’t complacent, who doesn’t cop out."
Bob Marley // "My home is in my head."
Tove Jansson // "It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It’s as simple as that."
Tennessee Williams // "There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go."
Hermann Hesse // "This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...You must play your part and sing a song, one of your best."
Clarice Lispector // "It’s inside myself that I must create someone who will understand."