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The 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.

John Berger

Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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Audience Cinema Deep Individually Nature Ritual Theatre Transport Unknown
Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Choices Ethics Future Itself Mankind Men Priorities
The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Country Doors Heart House Interior Two Unending
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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Blind Bottle Come Encounter Impulse Medicine Mountain Observation Soul
Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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Beloved Clothes Home Honeycomb Like Lip Milk Smell Tongue
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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Forget Opposite Other Pain Painting Photography Remind Way
Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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Experience Give Giving Moment Narrative Normal Offer Planet Public Sense Space
Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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Behind Bourgeois Building Conservatories Door Furniture Galleries Go House Shutting Street Way
This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Determine Effection Men Most Only Relation Relationship Themselves Wome
Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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Around Close Conquer Country Door Frame Look Place Renaissance Screen Survey Window
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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Achievement Behind Deceptive Landscape Life Seem Setting Sometimes Struggle Success
It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Basket Dog Dream Haire Like Open
The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Authority Bureaucrat Glamorous Happiness Power Reside Suppose
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Add All Cutting Daily Future Mean Media Modernism Past Presently
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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Before Century Poverty Priorities Result Scarcity Set World
Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Discredit Great Hijacking Today Word

The 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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