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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 surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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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 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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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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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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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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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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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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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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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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