Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
JOHN BERGER
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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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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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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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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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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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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