Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
JOHN BERGERThe century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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