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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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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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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 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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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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