"The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people."

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Frantz Fanon

#Expression Quotes #People Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men .”
“We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.”
“It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""”
“I never had any ambition to do anything commercial, anything journalistic. I wanted to be an artist, and I wanted to be an artist whose work was done in the medium of photography. It may be debatable to this day whether I ever succeeded in achieving that ambition, but the point is, I never had any uncertainty about that.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu
“I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.”
“There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.”
“Time and death sleep side by side.”

Source : Garth Nix (2014). “Abhorsen”, p.36, Hot Key Books
“The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way. Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.”

Source : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.30, New York Review of Books

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