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"There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street."
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"A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough."
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