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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.

John Berger

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Choice Decision Given Photography Situation
The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Animal Look Offer Opportunity Public Purpose Visitor Zoos
Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Death Flirting Flow Life Photography
Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Contraband Hand Stories
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
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
Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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Alone Carry Century Chair Clothes Heart Later Learn Like Live Poem Poet Read Want
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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Amouingest Countrymen Die Fellow Foreigner Less Live May Moving Persecuted Seem Torture World
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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Anywhere Consequences Every Hour Modern People Political Politics Thousand Writing
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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Blind Bottle Come Encounter Impulse Medicine Mountain Observation Soul
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
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
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Common Emotion Envy Exist Glamour Personal Social
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Children Looks Speak Recognize Word
The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Confine Difficulty Dog Dream Human Imagination Live Materialist Philosophy Practice Strict
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
JOHN BERGER

Look Love Men Women

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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