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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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Life Loss More Period Rest Suffer Together
Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Become Commodity Everything Exchangeable
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Around Die Dying Gradually Grow One Past Placenta
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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Animal Born Distinguish Men Relationship Symbol Yet
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Century Disappearance Enforce Horizon Our People Travel
(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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Event Given Name Need Occurred Story
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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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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Authority Bureaucrat Glamorous Happiness Power Reside Suppose
Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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Capitalism Culture Dream Publicity Same Time
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
Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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Common Common Sense Deprive Fundamental Home Ideology Ignorant Learning Part Sense
A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Capable Contrast Done Men Presence Suggest You
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
Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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Audience Cinema Deep Individually Nature Ritual Theatre Transport Unknown

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