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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

John Berger

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
Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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Art Become Enduring Function Gut Honor Invisible Meeting Place
Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Choice Decision Given Photography Situation
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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Act Around Evil Human Inhuman Nature Need Nothing Repeated Talking Way
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
It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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Art Bourgeoisie Cinema Discover Learn People Popular Princes Single Sky Vagrant
The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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Change Constellation Event Imagining Night People Sky Surround Threaded
At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Artist Disaster Failure Mean Necessary Perfection Time Ultimate
Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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Apart Authentic Bring Contribute Labor Life Loss Poem Poetry Space Together Violence
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Common Emotion Envy Exist Glamour Personal Social
I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Art Can Forgotten Innocent Judge Know Past Revenge Show
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.
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Cigarette Dialogue Noth Parentless Proscenium Shar Time
If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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Event Given Name Need Occurred Story
Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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Child Children Fortuitouus Happen Nothing World Young
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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Being Depend Envy Experience Glamourous Happiness Illusion Precisely Reassurance Share Solitary
Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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Communication Emotive Network Pace Permanent Propaganda Reflection Require Slogan Stifie Systematically

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