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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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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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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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