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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.

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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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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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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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Connect Difficult Significant Statement Strange Understand
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Allow Artist Certain Colour Comparitively Dominate Easy Mute Together Unity
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Century Disappearance Enforce Horizon Our People Travel
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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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