The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
JOHN BERGERModern 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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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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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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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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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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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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