Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
JOHN BERGEROurs is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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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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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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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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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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