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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.

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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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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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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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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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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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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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