"Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being."

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Source : "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 42), 1986.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#Spiritual Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.”
“Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.”
“I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.”
“To be anorexic...she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who you were. She could understand that now for, maybe underneath that desquamated self you would locate a new version.”
“Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.”
“Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.”
“On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet desperation, had changed. Inside, he was in a world of hurt. He saw black flashes before his eyes. He saw himself falling through the air. He knew what he was turning into. He was turning into the worst kind of human on the planet: an old bitter dork. Saw himself at the Game Room, picking through the miniatures for the rest of his life. He didn't want this future but he couldn't see how it could be avoided, couldn't figure his way out of it. FukÃº.”

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