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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.

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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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