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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

John Berger

Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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Audience Cinema Deep Individually Nature Ritual Theatre Transport Unknown
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
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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Before Century Poverty Priorities Result Scarcity Set World
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
All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Anxiety Publicity Upon Work
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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Being Depend Envy Experience Glamourous Happiness Illusion Precisely Reassurance Share Solitary
All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Different Marriage Similar Wedding
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Born Clothes Heart Lullabies Swaddled Year
If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Contribute Memories Photograph Stranger Unknowable
The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Celebrate Essence Order Organic Song Vocal
To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Ignorant Innocent May Remain
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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Anguish Childhood Grief Learn Loss Period Suffer Total
The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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Change Constellation Event Imagining Night People Sky Surround Threaded
This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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Accept Callous Human Inhuman Know Live Society Worth
A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Everything Meamimgless Object Particular Photograph Recording Result
The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Authority Bureaucrat Glamorous Happiness Power Reside Suppose

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