Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
JOHN BERGERWe can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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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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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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