Edwige Fenech In Anna: The Pleasure, The Torment (1973)

“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”

— Sylvia Plath (via quotemadness)

The Wishing Tree (1976) dir. Tengiz Abuladze

Fried Dragon Fish 1993 Directed by Shunji Iwai

“I loved you in silence, without hope, jealous and afraid.”

— Alexander Pushkin, from The Bronze Horseman: Poems; “King of Hearts,”

Never try to convey your idea to the audience – it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life and they’ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

— Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema, page 152

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (via books-n-quotes)

“I spent the afternoon pleasantly—alone, walking, lying in the grass, reading.”

— Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written c. July 1916

Georges Seurat.