If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
JOHN BERGERTraditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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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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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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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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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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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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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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