Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
JOHN BERGERThose who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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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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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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