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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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Continual Define Poetry Reassembking Repair Scattered Separate Space
We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Earth Explanation Knowledge Quite Sight Yet
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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Death Flirting Flow Life Photography
It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Basket Dog Dream Haire Like Open
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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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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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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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
Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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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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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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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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Character Death Modern Notion Spectular Time Transferred
The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Buy Buyer Envy Herself Imagine Meant Product Spectator

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