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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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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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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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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 power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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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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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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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