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I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.
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Ingmar Bergman
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: July 14
Died: 2007
Died: July 30
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The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror. But I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage. Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes.
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To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm sorry for. It's just that I know exactly where he feels most humiliated.
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Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.
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