Stroszek (1997) dir. Werner Herzog

Arthur Edward Pillsbury, Footage of Roses, 1925

To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.

Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Naimbag a bigat

I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence. If I had to choose between the world and me, I would reject the world, its lights and laws, unafraid to glide alone in absolute nothingness [...] If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which remains itself without reason.

Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

Angela Davis, black Communist jailed for more than a year on murder-conspiracy charges resulting from San Rafael courthouse slaying of a judge and three others, has a cigarette as she talks during an exclusive interview with Associated Press reporters Edith Lederer and Jeannine Yoemans in tiny green interview room at Santa Clara County jail at Palo Alto – 27 Dec 1971