Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
JOHN BERGERGlamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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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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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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