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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

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
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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Argument Diversion Opposite Same Screen Struggle Towards Truthfulness Use Word Writing
We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Earth Explanation Knowledge Quite Sight Yet
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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Adjustment Against Derive Hope Injustice Justice Little Protest Shouting
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Character Death Modern Notion Spectular Time Transferred
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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Both Case Common Hate Love Opposite Separate Something
What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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Connect Difficult Significant Statement Strange Understand
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
Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Neither Product Truth Utopian Writer
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
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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Animal Beyond Blindly Encounter Flicker Gaze Look Most Pass Stranger
Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Contraband Hand Stories
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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Alive Cicadas Legend Poem Poet Quiet Soul
We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Enclose Follow Inside Message Order Ourselves Song
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
Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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Actor Art Before Both Bring Cinema Compare Drama Dramatix Nature Public Right Season

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