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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

John Berger

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
By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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Contrast Define Done Her Presence Women
We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Earth Explanation Knowledge Quite Sight Yet
Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Blindness Chosen Come Dogma Fantacism Form Pursuit
Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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Clash Color Cymbal Effect Lullaby Matisse Neither Together
Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Choices Ethics Future Itself Mankind Men Priorities
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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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Death Flirting Flow Life Photography
It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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Art Bourgeoisie Cinema Discover Learn People Popular Princes Single Sky Vagrant
I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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Around Help Look Marvelous People See Terrible Want World Writing
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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Forget Opposite Other Pain Painting Photography Remind Way
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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Anywhere Consequences Every Hour Modern People Political Politics Thousand Writing
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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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Animal Disappoint Pet Zoos
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
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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Argument Diversion Opposite Same Screen Struggle Towards Truthfulness Use Word Writing

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