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NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

  And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better—cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?---Fyodor Dostoevsky ---Notes from Underground There are certain people of whom it is difficult to say anything which will at once throw them into relief—in other words, describe them graphically in their typical characteristics. These are they who are generally known as “commonplace people,” and this class comprises, of course, the immense majority of mankind. Authors, as a rule, attempt to select and portray types rarely met with in their entirety, but these types are nevertheless more real than real life itself. For instance, when the whole essence of an ordinary person’s nature lies in his perpetual and unchangeable commonplaceness; and when in spite of all his endeavours to do something out of the common, this person ends, eventually, by remaining in his unbroken line of routine—. I think such an individual really does become a type o...

Hope

To be human is to be a miracle of evolution conscious of its own miraculousness — a consciousness beautiful and bittersweet, for we have paid for it with a parallel awareness not only of our fundamental improbability but of our staggering fragility, of how physiologically precarious our survival is and how psychologically vulnerable our sanity. To make that awareness bearable, we have evolved a singular faculty that might just be the crowning miracle of our consciousness: hope.-- Erich Fromm



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L'Enfant (The Child 2005)

The Fabelmans (2022)

Hania Rani live at Invalides, in Paris, France for Cercle

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

Days of heaven (1978)

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The hunt (2012)

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Essential Rainer Werner Fassbinder Films

Telegraph Road

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Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

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The pianist (2002)

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American Splendor (2003)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

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Serpico (1973)

The causes and consequences of the Ukraine war A lecture by John J. Mearsheimer

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The conversation (1974)

Jack White - FEAR OF THE DAWN

Nebraska (2013)

Declaration of Msgr. Carlo Maria Viganò on the Russia-Ukraine Crisis

The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

All the President's Men (1976)

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

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Florence + The Machine - Live at Glastonbury 2015

Apocalypse Now (1979)

The deer hunter (1978)

Boogie Nights (1997)

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