"Chieftains must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than its letter."

-- Attila the Hun

#Law Quotes #Letters Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.”
“I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.”
“Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.”
“Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.”
“The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.”
“Those who laugh the hardest are often the most unhappy.”
“We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.”
“The idea of watching an entire film basically from one person's perspective - and not even really from their perspective, but [it's] probably the most intimately shot film that's in any of these categories. If you're not familiar with Son of Saul, basically it's a film about a Jewish guy who's in concentration camp, but he helps dispose of the bodies after they leave the gas chamber. So, you watch the entire movie looking at Saul's face and looking at his interactions with people.”

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