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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Animal Look Offer Opportunity Public Purpose Visitor Zoos
This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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Accept Callous Human Inhuman Know Live Society Worth
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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Contradiction Interest Meeting Natural Photo Photographer Place Use Viewer
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Alone Beautiful Believe Crystal Deeply Existence Less More Nature Ours Poppy
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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Being Depend Envy Experience Glamourous Happiness Illusion Precisely Reassurance Share Solitary
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Character Death Modern Notion Spectular Time Transferred
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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Both Case Common Hate Love Opposite Separate Something
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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Forget Opposite Other Pain Painting Photography Remind Way
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
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Beauty Condemned Display Dresses Naked Nue Place
For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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Artist Discovery Drawing Literally Phrase Slick True
Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Capitalism Country Define Exploit Interest Majority Narrow Possible Survive Today
The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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Change Constellation Event Imagining Night People Sky Surround Threaded
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
It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Allow Artist Certain Colour Comparitively Dominate Easy Mute Together Unity

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