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GRAMMELOT: Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life: The universe as I see it →
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Midway through Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, the voiceover which threads through the entire film says, I want to know what you are, I want to see what you see. It is directed at the invisible being, or God, whose presence is as large as its absence throughout the film.
I am reminded of a…
“Marami sa atin ang nag-iisip baguhin ang mundo. Pero iilan lang naman yung mga willing magbago.”
—(via dexterdeterminado)
“Man redet umsonst von Gerechtigkeit, solange das größte der Schlachtschiffe nicht an der Stirn eines Ertrunkenen zerschellt ist.”
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[It is useless to talk of justice, as long as the biggest battleship has not smashed to smithereens on the forehead of a drowned man. - LJW]
In: Paul Celan: Gegenlicht [1949]. In: Gesammelte Werke. Bd. 3. Hg. v. Beda Allemann und Stefan Reichert. Frankfurt am Main 2000, S. 163-165. Hier: S. 163.
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