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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.

John Berger

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Aqtch Look Men Sight Vision Women
A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Allow Boycott Consider Craven Distinct Elected Government People Pressure Tactic
At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Artist Disaster Failure Mean Necessary Perfection Time Ultimate
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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Dwelling Home Hostile Language Men Place Potentially
Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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Different Forget Look Meaning Pain Remember Thing
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Achieve All Art Cinema Mankind People Save Sky Spontaneous
This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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Accept Callous Human Inhuman Know Live Society Worth
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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Chosen Emigration Experience Forced Metropolis National Time Village
A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Everything Meamimgless Object Particular Photograph Recording Result
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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Always Constitute History Past Present Relation
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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More Mystery Pain Philosophical Presecute Space Speculation
Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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Clash Color Cymbal Effect Lullaby Matisse Neither Together
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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Argument Diversion Opposite Same Screen Struggle Towards Truthfulness Use Word Writing
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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Connect Difficult Significant Statement Strange Understand
Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Choices Ethics Future Itself Mankind Men Priorities
Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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Constellation First Invented Named Night Sky Star Storyteller

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