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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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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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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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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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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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