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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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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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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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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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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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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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