"A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous ones but because once they are included in a life, events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather, corresponds to an inner architecture."

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Source : Italo Calvino (1986). “Mr. Palomar”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Italo Calvino

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“The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and partly because that is the basis of the film industry. That's where the filmmakers come from, it's where they start and sometimes its where they should have stayed.”
“It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.”
“It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.”
“The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.”

Source : "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 262, 1991.
“I and this mystery, here we stand.”
“What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists - all terms conventionally applied to those who fight against exploitation, racism, sexism, and capitalism. We can never have too many of these, just as we can never have too few 'conservatives'.”
“I think of myself as a really happy person.”

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