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Today the discredit of words is very great.
JOHN BERGER

Discredit Great Hijacking Today Word
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Around Die Dying Gradually Grow One Past Placenta
It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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Establish Explain Fact Facts Place Seeing Surround Undo Word World
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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Enjoy Hand Look Mirror Morally Naked Paint Painting Pleasure Vanity Women
These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Ambiguity Contradiction Image Increase Natural Photo Photograph
To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Anybody Closest Desire Feeling Immortal Life
A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Arches Breathing Cigarettes Parentless Space
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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Course Else Life Line Obey Other People Respect Somebody
The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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Feel May Minimize Monopoly Need Passion Sexual Spectator Such Women
For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
JOHN BERGER

Lot Me Out Paper Returning Take White
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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Animal Capacity Development First Human In Language Men Separate Signal Symbolic
Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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Continual Define Poetry Reassembking Repair Scattered Separate Space
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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More Mystery Pain Philosophical Presecute Space Speculation
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
Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Basic Best Compassion Necessity Oppose Order Therefore World
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

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