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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

John Berger

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
The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Century Close Disappear Helpless Horizon Other People See
Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Contraband Hand Stories
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Book Inhabit Like Reading Real Roof Story Wall
But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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Always Centre Dismantle Emigrate Fragment Lost Move World
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Inspirational Light Material Photography Primary
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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Both Case Common Hate Love Opposite Separate Something
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Dwelling Home Hostile Language Men Place Potentially
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
Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Action Choice Determine Ethics Priorities Suggests
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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Accident Anything Birth Impossible Injustice May Nothing Remain
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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More Mystery Pain Philosophical Presecute Space Speculation
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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Back Herself Love Offer Price Product Publicity Stealing
In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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Average Country Men never Painting Presume Principal Protagonist Rude Spectator
A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Allow Boycott Consider Craven Distinct Elected Government People Pressure Tactic

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