The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
JOHN BERGEREvery city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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