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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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