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" The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. "

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" Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. "

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" As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. "