"It takes large murder to turn rocks in the shade and expose strange worms beneath."
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"Camera, as all-seeing God, satisfies our longing for omniscience."
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"The idea of chance is absent from the world of the child and primitive."
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"We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark."
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"Cure blindness with a whore's spittle."
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"More or less we're all afflicted with the psychology of the voyeur."
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"Imagery is born of loss."
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"Film spectators are quiet vampires."

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"Cinema is created by men for the consolation of men."
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"It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be."
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"The lords appease us with images."
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"The theory is that birth is prompted by the child's desire to leave the womb."
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"The city sleeps & the unhappy...