Lucidity without the corrective of ambition leads to stagnation. It is essential that the one sustain the other, that the one combat the other without winning, for a work, for a life to be possible...I know peace only when my ambitions sleep. Once they waken, anxiety repossesses me. Life is a state of ambition. The mole digging his tunnels is ambitious. Ambition is in effect everywhere, and we see its traces on the faces of the dead themselves.
Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
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Chris Marker, Stills from ”La Jetée", 1962)
“Marked by an Image from his childhood, a is man trapped —as in a labyrinth, in the nightmarish drama of memory whose whole experience consists of making something his own.”
“Marked by an Image from his childhood, a is man trapped —as in a labyrinth, in the nightmarish drama of memory whose whole experience consists of making something his own.”
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