The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
JOHN BERGERWe can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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[O]ften 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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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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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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