The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
JOHN BERGERWhat is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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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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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect 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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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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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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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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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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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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