Luis Bunuel Quotes

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• Thank God I'm an atheist.
• Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it…
• I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
• God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
• The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
• If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt…
• I am an atheist, thanks be to God.
• If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.
• I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things…
• Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
• Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.
• I'm still an atheist, thank God.
• Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.
• Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
• A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.
• If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and lungs in good…
• If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be…
• I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he…
• I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it…
• If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two…

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