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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

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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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[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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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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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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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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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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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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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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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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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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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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