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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Lot Me Out Paper Returning Take White
It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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Between Explicit Fully Make Relationship Stories Trying Universal Usually Writing
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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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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Display Itself Nakedness Nudity Object Place Reveal Sight Stimulate
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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
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
Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Discredit Great Hijacking Today Word
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Age Believe City Every Nothing Sex Teenager
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
Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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Absence Painting Presence Real Something Thing

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