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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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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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 suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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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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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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