How can you be true and
kind at the same
time?

How?

Wings of Desire ‘Der Himmel über Berlin’ (Wim Wenders, 1987)

Coming to my own aid, I think again of solitude, of the solitude that surrounds my existence. And that thought, always so lugubrious, distressing, now, after the importance of succeeding in life, becomes almost light. Words have a weight. Importance is weightier than solitude. Though I know that solitude is harsher. But the importance of succeeding in life is a noose. It’s nothing but a noose.

— Fleur Jaeggy

Jean Seberg

And now there is the nightmare, the one and only nightmare, of living. Of the importance of living. And of the importance of succeeding to live. Or simply of succeeding. In other words, of becoming something. Something more or less than what one is.

In war, hunting, and love you suffer a thousand pains for one pleasure.

The Specter of Death, 1907.

— Kazimierz Stabrowski