- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
- Dog
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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020