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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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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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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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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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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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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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