Chris Marker Quotes

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• I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We…
• Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
• Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of…
• I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me,
• When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.
• Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.
• I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.
• What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
• I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.

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