I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about … - Andrei Tarkovsky

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In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later.

Andrei Tarkovsky

I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.

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If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

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Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.

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