Iris

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It's extraordinary to be loved by one person for an entire life. Among the skyrocketing rates of divorces, it's increasingly rare. People love you for certain things in life. At some point, they love you for your beauty and youth: you are physically attractive and you have potential. At some point, they love you for your experience, money, help that you can offer: a simple shelter or your need for this shelter which they are about to give. Then, they love you out of routine, they got used to your company and you engraved yourself in every activity and memory they have. To be loved in all these stages, for better and for worse, is a cliche which happens to the few. A woman who fell in love with words and freedom and a man who fell in love with a woman and all her flaws. Iris Murdoch and John Bayley in Iris. 

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On the nature of pictures

*Every Google image belongs to someone and this someone should be noted. However, if pictures are scenes from the film they most probably belong to owners of the film/producers. I use saved screens of the Google compilation of pictures, thus the pictures of pictures, which I take, cut and edit myself (as a derivative use). They are used for reviewing purposes (fair use), not for diminishing the films' profits by stealing what rightly belongs to them. Copyright is tricky, let's get used to it.