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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.

John Berger

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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Naked Oneness Oneself Order Other Recognize Sight
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Achieve All Art Cinema Mankind People Save Sky Spontaneous
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
These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Ambiguity Contradiction Image Increase Natural Photo Photograph
Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Believe City Country Love Man Men Older Twenties Woman
What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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Absence Loss might Paint Painting Touch True Unaware
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
Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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Different Forget Look Meaning Pain Remember Thing
The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Country Doors Heart House Interior Two Unending
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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Autobiographical Discovery Drawing Event Imagine Record Remembered Seen
Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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Beloved Clothes Home Honeycomb Like Lip Milk Smell Tongue
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Around Die Dying Gradually Grow One Past Placenta
If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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Event Given Name Need Occurred Story
This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Determine Effection Men Most Only Relation Relationship Themselves Wome
It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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Book Grow Pass Unlike Year Younger
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
JOHN BERGER

Both Case Common Hate Love Opposite Separate Something

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