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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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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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Alone Carry Century Chair Clothes Heart Later Learn Like Live Poem Poet Read Want
We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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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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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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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 seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Art Country Italian Mountain Space Top Traditional
To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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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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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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Constitute Country Existence Labour Look People Recognised Saw Sky Vicent

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