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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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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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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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