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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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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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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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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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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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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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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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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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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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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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