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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Constellation First Invented Named Night Sky Star Storyteller
What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Bureaucrat Envied Envy Greater Illusion Power Themselves
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Artist Country Event Influence might Outgoing Political Themselves Time Tragedies
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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