By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
JOHN BERGERThe century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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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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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 heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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