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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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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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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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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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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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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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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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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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