A moving prism

» All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love. I don’t want the reader to misunderstand me: what I am talking about is freedom in an ultimate, moral sense. — Sculpting in Time , Tarkovsky; p 180

I trust not premonitions and I fear not omens. I flee not from slander nor poison. There is no death. We are all immortal. All is immortal. Fear not death at seventeen nor at seventy. There is only reality and light. There is neither dark nor death in this, our world. We have reached the beach and I am one of those who pull the nets in when immortality arrives in batches. Live in a house and it will not crumble. I will summon a century at will, enter and build my house in it. That is why your children and your wives all share my board, the table serving forefather and grandson: the future is decided now. -  by Arseni Tarkovsky, as read in Mirror