Coming Back

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     Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that

     you can see the place you came from with new eyes and

     extra colors. And the people there see you differently,

     too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as

     never leaving.

         Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

Eyes of the unfeeling

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A picture lives by companionship.  It dies by the same token.  It is therefore risky to send it out into the world.  How often it must be impared by the eyes of the unfeeling. 

Mark Rothko

Ignorance

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Ignorance … is not a passive state of absence – a simple lack of information: it is an active dynamic of negation, an active refusal of information.

Shoshana Felman, Psychoanalysis and Education