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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
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The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
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A paranoiac is like a poet, born, not made.
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God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
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Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
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If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'
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The story is also a sequence of moral and surrealist aesthetic. The sexual instinct and the sense of death form its substance. (The golden age)
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Frankly, despite my distaste of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
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In the end, belief and the lack of it amount to the same thing. If someone were to prove to me—right this minute—that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.
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I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial—largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox—in other words,—all the things I love the most.
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If someone were to prove to me- right this minute- that God, in all his luminescence, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.
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I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.
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The bar... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable — and contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a clientele that doesn't like to talk.
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Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.
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If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
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If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.
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If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order,'' I'd reply, ''so I can go on drinking and smoking!''
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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.
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I like go to bed and get up early; in that, I am anti-Spanish.
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Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.
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Science doesn't interest me much. I find it analytical, pretentious, and superficial—largely because it doesn't address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox—in other words, all the things I love the most.
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If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Luis Buñuel
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Born:
February 22, 1900
Died:
July 29, 1983
(aged 83)
Bio:
Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish-Mexican filmmaker who worked in Spain, Mexico and France.
Known for:
An Andalusian Dog (1929)
Beauty of the Day (1967)
Viridiana (1961)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
The Young and the Damned (1950)
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