Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object - and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.