Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
JOHN BERGERPleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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We 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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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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