My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
JOHN BERGERTracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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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 power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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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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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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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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