We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIProblems begin the moment we’re born. We’re born with infinite possibilities, only to give up on one after another. To choose one thing means to give up another. That’s inevitable. But what can you do? That’s what it is to live.
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I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.
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As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of ‘we have no other choice.’
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I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.
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Utopia exists only in one’s childhood life.
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Our lives are like the wind or like sounds. We come into being, resonate with each other. Then fade away.
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I’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.
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The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
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The future is clear. It’s going to fall apart. What’s the use in worrying? It’s inevitable.
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To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.
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Life is a winking light in the darkness.
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I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films.
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In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way.
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Whoever falls, hatred will breed hatred.
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Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.
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Stop trying. Take long walks. Look at scenery. Doze off at noon. Don’t even think about flying. And then, pretty soon, you’ll be flying again.
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