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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.

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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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Beauty Naked Oneself Recognise Seen
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Basic Best Compassion Necessity Oppose Order Therefore World
We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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Absorb Activity Draw Else Everything Forget Happen Mean Think Thinking
Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Associate Hair Need Passion Sexual
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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More Mystery Pain Philosophical Presecute Space Speculation
What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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Connect Difficult Significant Statement Strange Understand
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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Continual Define Poetry Reassembking Repair Scattered Separate Space
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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Anguish Childhood Grief Learn Loss Period Suffer Total
The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Back Herself Love Offer Price Product Publicity Stealing
If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Contribute Memories Photograph Stranger Unknowable
The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Animal Disappoint Pet Zoos
All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Different Marriage Similar Wedding
You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Course Else Life Line Obey Other People Respect Somebody
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Aqtch Look Men Sight Vision Women

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