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
Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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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.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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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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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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