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"One can look at seeing but one can't hear hearing" is an observation by Marcel Duchamp, recorded in his notebooks.

Duchamp wrote an answer: ( — Why not? The metaphor of the metaphor: one can see seeing . . . )"[1]

In original French:

"On peut regarder voir; On ne peut pas entendre entendre"

The observation was included in the Box of 1914.

Its later variant was: "Sens: on peut voir regarder. Peut-on entendre écouter, sentir humer, etc"

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