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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.

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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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Between Know Relation Settle
Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Between Cluster Gave Identity Image Imaginary Star Trace
The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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Feel May Minimize Monopoly Need Passion Sexual Spectator Such Women
The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Country Doors Heart House Interior Two Unending
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Alone Autobiography Begin Form Orphan Sense
Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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Alone Carry Century Chair Clothes Heart Later Learn Like Live Poem Poet Read Want
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Book Inhabit Like Reading Real Roof Story Wall
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Burden Camera Memories Photography Recieve
The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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Addresses Adorable Contradiction God Image Perspective Reality Really Single Spectator Structure Unlike
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Book Cover Four Inhabit Reading Roof Wall
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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Bureaucrat Envied Envy Greater Illusion Power Themselves
To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Anybody Closest Desire Feeling Immortal Life
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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Basis Compassion Natural Necessity Operate Order Place World
Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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Animal Beyond Blindly Encounter Flicker Gaze Look Most Pass Stranger
All creation is in the art of seeing.
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All Creation Art See
This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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Achieve Country Deprivation Desirable Develop False Impose Intensive Standard Today
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Apart Authentic Contribute Labor Poem Poetry Separate Together Violence
Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Discredit Great Hijacking Today Word
Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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Appearance Capital Equality Everything Object Oil Painting Reduce Relation Social
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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Around Close Conquer Country Door Frame Look Place Renaissance Screen Survey Window
I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often 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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Art Can Forgotten Innocent Judge Know Past Revenge Show
Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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Experience Give Giving Moment Narrative Normal Offer Planet Public Sense Space
Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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Continual Define Poetry Reassembking Repair Scattered Separate Space
The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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Art Common Differentiate More People Power Rare Sometimes Strange Theatre Urgent
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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Burden Camera Forget God Like Memories Photography Relieve Survey Us Yet
Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Choice Decision Given Photography Situation
You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Course Else Life Line Obey Other People Respect Somebody

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