NITCH

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Hayao Miyazaki // "We have a word for that in Japanese. It’s called ma. Emptiness. It’s there intentionally. (claps hands) The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it’s just busyness. But if you take a moment, then the tension building…can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension all the time you just get numb… What really matters is the underlying emotions…that you never let go of those."

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Anthony Bourdain // "Be a fool. For love. For yourself. What you think might possibly make you happy…even for a little while…whatever the cost or good sense might dictate."

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Peter Tosh // "Everyone’s trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom."

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Nina Simone // "I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear."

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Jane Goodall // "We are the most intellectual creature that has ever walked the planet. But I carefully say intellectual rather than intelligent because if we were intelligent, we would be caring for our only home."

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David Bowie // "I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we’ve made of them... The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey."

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Aldous Huxley // "It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly... Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them...throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you...trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly...on tiptoes and no luggage...completely unencumbered."

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Carl Jung // "Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again."

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Jean-Luc Godard // "He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch."

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy // "We are not playing cards."

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Albert Camus // "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

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Anais Nin // "I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits."