"I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life."

-- Jean-Paul Sartre

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“Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.”
“The problem is whether we are determined to go in the direction of compassion or not. If we are, then can we reduce the suffering to a minimum? If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction.”
“We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being ... that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of oneâ€™s days. That is the birth - the Virgin Birth - in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life.”
“My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me and I'm very grateful I can still make a living from it.”
“The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.”
“We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination.”
“An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.”

Source : Charles Olson (1993). “Selected Poems of Charles Olson”, p.148, Univ of California Press
“Since I am from Spain, once the morning has gone, I like to take a nap while falling asleep to black and white movies. It feels less lonely. There is a comfort in hearing their voices, like when you're a child and your mother tells you a story before bedtime.”

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