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Film · Film noir · Drama (film) · Drama

Alright, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

Sunset Boulevard · 1950

★ 7.0

Only the tiniest fraction of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them they are free.

1969

★ 4.3

The heart of man is made to reconcile contradictions.

1741

★ 3.9

Many complain of their Memory, few of their Judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

1745

★ 3.9

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.

Anchorman · 2004

★ 3.9

Play · Comedy (play)

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

Tartuffe · 1669

★ 3.8

Human kind Cannot bear very much reality.

Burnt Norton · 1936

★ 3.7

There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.

The Golden Notebook · 1962

★ 3.7

Autobiography and memoir

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

2004

★ 3.7

Play · Drama (play)

Castles in the air-they are so easy to take refuge in. And easy to build, too.

1892

★ 3.6

Essay · Philosophical literature

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Bertrand Russell

1928

★ 3.6

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said · 1974

★ 3.6

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections · 1678

★ 3.5

Film · Action (film) · Thriller (film) · Action · Thriller

You're a legend in your own mind.

Sudden Impact · 1983

★ 2.3

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Is it possible that I’m not as attractive as I think I am?

Seinfeld · 1993

★ 2.3

Who has deceiv’d thee so oft as thy self?

Benjamin Franklin

1738

★ 2.2

One never ceases to make a hero of one's self (in private).

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today · 1873

★ 2.2

Novel · Modernist literature

Love... Is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 2.2

Many a Man thinks he is buying Pleasure, when he is really selling himself a slave to it.

Benjamin Franklin

1750

★ 2.1

Film · Science fiction (film) · Action (film) · Science fiction · Action

Most paranoid delusions are intricate but this is brillant.

The Terminator · 1984

★ 2.1

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