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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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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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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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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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