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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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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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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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