Frank Lentricchia quotes
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“People are mysterious, even to themselves.”
-- Frank LentricchiaSource : Frank Lentricchia (2011). “The Sadness of Antonioni”, p.142, SUNY Press
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“In the end, everything is found to be wanting.”
-- Frank LentricchiaSource : Frank Lentricchia (2011). “The Sadness of Antonioni”, p.160, SUNY Press
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“Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.”
-- Frank LentricchiaSource : Frank Lentricchia (2011). “The Sadness of Antonioni”, p.238, SUNY Press
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“No one can be the total cure for another person.”
-- Frank LentricchiaSource : Frank Lentricchia (2011). “The Sadness of Antonioni”, p.239, SUNY Press
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“I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me--the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.”
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“Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.”
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“The camera has a mind of its own--its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's gaze--the camera's domain of pristine space hitherto untraversed is now contaminated by human temporality. Intrusion occurs, but the camera remains transfixed by its object. It doesn't care. The camera has no human fears.”
-- Frank LentricchiaSource : Frank Lentricchia (2011). “The Sadness of Antonioni”, p.124, SUNY Press
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“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”
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Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
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“Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.”
Source : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books
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“The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.”
Source : Bede Jarrett (1935). “The vocation to marriage: eighteen discourses”
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