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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Basic Best Compassion Necessity Oppose Order Therefore World
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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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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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Beauty Condemned Display Dresses Naked Nue Place
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Dwelling Home Hostile Language Men Place Potentially
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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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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Enjoy Hand Look Mirror Morally Naked Paint Painting Pleasure Vanity Women
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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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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