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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

About Affront Anything Cannot
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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility

Capitalism Expansion Ideology Indefinite
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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Certain Course Critic Entire
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AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Model Occupies Our Part
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Animation Charms Depression Melancholy
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Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Any Disease Important Significance
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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Abstract Famous Independent Intensity
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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

About Album Extended Family
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Balance However Lie May
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Accelerate Beauty Become Change
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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Becoming Exhaustion His History
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Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Alive Although Becoming Healthy
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Governs Guilt Inexorable Innocence
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Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Form Lying Most Simple
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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

AIDS Consequences Having People
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Art Intellectual Interpretation Revenge
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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams

Dream Life Interpret Looking
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Aim Analogy Art Commentary
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It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Altogether Bad Interesting Less
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Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Ambition Does Feeds Others
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Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Elementary Lying Means Self
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Constructs Painter Photographer
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Books Funny Little Pieces
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Ideas Intelligence Kind Really
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Ideas Intelligence Kind Really
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Deeply Feared Most Suffering
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Attainment Existence Flux Future
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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Anything Catastrophe Changing Heading
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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

Work Paid Pleasure Allowed
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Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

Ever Men's Once Door
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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
Read Doctor Presciption Bill
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Born Alone Live Live
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.

Give Them They Want
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

People Acept Breaking Law
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out

Prefer People Rock Boat
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Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Race Hate Human Nature
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

You Want Happy Ending
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Create Own Visual Style
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Film Never Good Really
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Doctor Told Stop Having
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

Nobody Takes Anything Who
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Enemy Art Absence Limitations
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
Been Have More Interested
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Justice Nobody Gets People
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

People Losing Capacity Words
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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

Bad Word Colleague Darken
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I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

Basically Happy Person But
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.

Cinema Boundary Ribbon Dreams
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

Writer Needs Artist Brush
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When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

Down Something Always Turns up
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