update: I'm too lazy for this.
Brideshead Revisited (1945), Evelyn Waugh
- "I could tell him, too, that to know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom." p. 39
- "She so much resembled Sebastian that, sitting beside her in the gathering dusk, I was confused by the double illusion of familiarity and strangeness. Thus, looking through strong lenses one may watch a man approaching from afar, study every detail of his face and clothes, believe one has only to put out a hand to touch him, marvel that he does not hear one, and look up as one moves, and then seeing him with the naked eye suddenly remember that one is to him a distant speck, doubtfully human. I knew her and she did not know me." p. 67
- "If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit alw...
apr 16 2013 ∞ may 13 2013 +
Novels/Novellas
- The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith
- Doktor Glas, Hjalmar Söderberg
- Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan
- The Castle, Franz Kafka
- The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh (re-read)
- The Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling (re-read)
Short stories/Poetry
- Metamorphosis and other stories, Franz Kafka (re-read)
- The Adulterous Woman, Albert Camus
- The Lady in the Looking Glass, Virginia Woolf
Non-fiction
- Under det rosa täcket, Nina Björk
apr 15 2013 ∞ may 3 2013 +
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Directors
- Ken Russell
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Charlie Chaplin
- Jacques Tati
- Woody Allen
- Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Louis Malle
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Martin Scorsese
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Wim Wenders
- Jean Cocteau
- Orson Welles
- Robert Altman
- Roberto Rossellini
- Wes Anderson
Actors/actresses
apr 16 2013 ∞ apr 16 2013 +
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- Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? , Joyce Carol Oates
- Cathedral , Raymond Carver
- Med Strömmen , Hjalmar Söderberg
- Love , Anton Chekhov
- The Tooth , Shirley Jackson
- So Much Water So Close To Home , Raymond Carver
mar 3 2015 ∞ mar 3 2015 +
some of my favorite films in terms of cinematography
- bright star (2009)
- days of heaven (1978)
- in the mood for love (2000)
- the proposition (2005)
- der himmel über berlin (1987)
- paradise trilogy (2012 - 2013)
- the fountain (2006)
- the night of the hunter (1955)
- badlands (1973)
- lawrence anyways (2012)
- a single man (2009)
- pretty baby (1978)
- fanny and alexander (1982)
- the trial (1962)
- stealing beauty (1996)
- bambi (1942)
- the graduate (1967)
- the piano (1993)
- lust, caution (2007)
dec 21 2014 ∞ dec 21 2014 +
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