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Maya Deren
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“It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.”
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“S. is talking in my ear with the desperate insistence of a commentator.”
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“The way back is always shorter.”
Maya Deren, U.S. filmmaker, anthropologist
(1917 - 1961)