The silver linings.

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A man who hasn’t built up a certain immunity to love through constant exposure to it is in danger of being all but killed by love when the first exposure comes.

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Monday, 28th May

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An Existential Life: In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His...

fuckyeahexistentialism:

In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.

And God said, “Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done.” And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God…

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Friday, 25th May

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Thursday, 24th May

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When we understand each other, love ends. So in a sense, yes, love is the result of a misunderstanding. When we don’t understand someone, we fall in love with them. When we realize that individual’s truth, we say they weren’t who we thought. So love is nothing but an illusion. Fortunately we have this capacity, otherwise there’d only be one original, and everyone would fall in love with him or her.

Abbas Kiarostami, explaining his interpretation of CERTIFIED COPY.

You can find this quote along with a mess of other fun soundbites in the 15-minute Kiarostami interview that’s included as a supplement on Criterion’s Certified Copy dvd / blu-ray, which hits stores tomorrow. spoiler alert: the man rocks his dark sunglasses across the entire disc, even at night.

Update: Criterion posted a video clip of Kiarostami saying this stuff.

(via criterioncorner)

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Monday, 21st May

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