"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."

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"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."

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"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."

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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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"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."

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"That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe."

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"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."

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"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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"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."

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"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."

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"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."

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