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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.

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We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
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Amazement Both Complexity Confusion Daughter Mother
One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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Art Body Function Great Help Imagine Live Ourselves Skin Someone Something
Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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Love Subject Trained Wall
If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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Choose Circumstance End Feel Loser Responsible
Made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language – this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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Buried Collapse Difficult Inadequate Memory Merely Unspeakable Unspoken
As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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Art Effort Going Historical More Order Repression Simulate Society Target Turmoil Various
Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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Exist Fear Feminism Infantilism Longing Male Mother Much Purely Remain Son
When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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Becoming Border Correct Dream Escaping Political Politically Showed Sign
The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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Eyelash Eyelashes Flicker Password
Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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Betrayed Caricature Electronic Mass Media Other People Target
TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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Collectively Created False Kind Television
And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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Assumption Drenched Know Ourselves Until
To become a token woman – whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters – is to become something less than a man.
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Brotherhood Denying Law Less Man Nobel Prize Self Sister tenure Winning Woman
The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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Miracle More People Thinking Together Two
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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Arctic Deaadnededness Dead Doors Key Leftism Male Politics Revolution Tolerance Word

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