Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
JOHN BERGERPhotography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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(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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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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