#elf

When you first fall in love it's so thrilling, you can't wait to throw yourself away and make this new wonderful twosome. ↗

— Jane Campion

#fall #first #love #make #new

With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world. ↗

— Jane Campion

#because #being #bright #contemporary #creates

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. ↗

— Albert Camus

#intellectual #itself #mind #someone #watches

I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#bad #been #deep #deep down #down

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. ↗

— Albert Camus

#assert #know #oneself #should

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. ↗

— Albert Camus

#dies #freedom #imposes #itself #lives

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. ↗

— Albert Camus

#complete #fact #find #intelligence #itself

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. ↗

— Albert Camus

#contrary #die #impossible #love #oneself

Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself. ↗

— Dyan Cannon

#being #born #concept #means #new

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#becomes #dangerous #death #doing #dying