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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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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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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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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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