"If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space? ... Those of us who are forced by their own sensibilities to view their lives in this perspective — who recognize that there is no purpose they can comprehend and that amidst a countless myriad of stars their existence goes unknown and unchronicled — can fall prey all too easily to the ultimate anomie. … The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache … This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware."
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Interviewed by Eric Nordern, Playboy (September 1968)
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Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick (26 July 1928 – 7 March 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer born in The Bronx, New York City who lived most of his life in England. He is widely recognized as one of the most significant movie directors of the 20th century.
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