Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
JOHN BERGERThe opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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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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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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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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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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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 time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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