The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
JOHN BERGERWhat is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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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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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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