"Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy."

-- Honore de Balzac

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“There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer.”
“Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others. - Jon Snow”
“Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality.”
“It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.”
“We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!" Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts." "Big doubts?" I said weakly. The Russian scientist shrugged. "I am pessimist," he said.”
“Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.”
“I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.”

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“History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul”

Source : "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 57), 1986.

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