"That air. The air afterwards. I wanted to breathe it in. It felt right to breathe it in. Because we were breathing them in, weren't we? And the building. We were breathing it all in. And I thought, there's a part of this that's actually a part of me now. I now have that responsibility. I am alive, and I am breathing, and I can do the things this dust can't do."

-- David Levithan

#Responsibility Quotes #Air Quotes #Dust Quotes

“We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars Without stars they cannot work.”
“Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.”
“The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.”
“Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.”
“The reason why the war ended in Bosnia was not because of amnesty but because a combined Croat-Bosnian offensive defeated the Serbs on the battlefield. Sometimes naÃ¯vetÃ© belongs not to the human rights activists but to the politicians.”
“By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!”
“You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.”
“Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.”

Source : Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.508, Everyman's Library

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