Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
JOHN BERGERPhotographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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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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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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