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“Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.”
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“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“The mirror was often used as a symbol of the vanity of woman. The moralizing, however, was mostly hypocritical.
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting "Vanity", thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.”
― Ways of Seeing
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting "Vanity", thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.”
― Ways of Seeing
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
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“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her,
you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting Vanity,
thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had
depicted for your own pleasure.
The real function of the mirror was otherwise. It was to make
the woman connive in treating herself as, first and foremost, a
sight.”
― Ways of Seeing
you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting Vanity,
thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had
depicted for your own pleasure.
The real function of the mirror was otherwise. It was to make
the woman connive in treating herself as, first and foremost, a
sight.”
― Ways of Seeing
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