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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.

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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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Absence Painting Presence Real Something Thing
The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Authority Bureaucrat Glamorous Happiness Power Reside Suppose
All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Different Marriage Similar Wedding
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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Burden Camera Forget God Like Memories Photography Relieve Survey Us Yet
We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Enclose Follow Inside Message Order Ourselves Song
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Neither Product Truth Utopian Writer
Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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Artist Drawing Drawn Equal Intimacy Other Truthfulness
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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Child Children Fortuitouus Happen Nothing World Young
Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Choice Decision Given Photography Situation
We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Calculate Destination Draws Invisible Make Observed Something Visible
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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