The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
JOHN BERGERThe contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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