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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.

John Berger

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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Basis Compassion Natural Necessity Operate Order Place World
We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Between Just never One Ourselves Thing
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
JOHN BERGER

Consequences Exactly Past Prisoner Wish
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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Autobiographical Discovery Drawing Event Imagine Record Remembered Seen
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Accustom Blessing Bored Chain Dog Sausage Self
For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Lot Me Out Paper Returning Take White
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.
JOHN BERGER

Around Help Look Marvelous People See Terrible Want World Writing
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 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
Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Capitalism Country Define Exploit Interest Majority Narrow Possible Survive Today
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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Life Loss More Period Rest Suffer Together
The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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All Content Impersonal Maternity Operate Outside Placenta Remain Song Surface
All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Anxiety Publicity Upon Work
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
Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
JOHN BERGER

Child Children Fortuitouus Happen Nothing World Young
It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
JOHN BERGER

Establish Explain Fact Facts Place Seeing Surround Undo Word World

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