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