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Jeanne has to organize her life, to not have any space, any time, so she won’t be depressed or anxious [...] She didn’t want to have one free hour because she didn’t know how to fill that hour.

— Chantal Akerman

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I think if I knew I was going to do this, I wouldn’t have dared to do it.

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A lot of it came unconsciously. [...] When I wrote it, it ran like a river.

She never wanted to speak about Auschwitz. [...] I asked her once to tell me more, and she said, 'No, I will get crazy.' So we could speak around, or after, or before, but the real moment, never. Not directly.

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