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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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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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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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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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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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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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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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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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