Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
JOHN BERGEREverything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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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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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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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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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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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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