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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.

John Berger

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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Burden Camera Forget God Like Memories Photography Relieve Survey Us Yet
The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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Address Animal Cave Man Men Mountain Sea Secret Specifically Unlike
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Artist Country Event Influence might Outgoing Political Themselves Time Tragedies
Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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Around Close Conquer Country Door Frame Look Place Renaissance Screen Survey Window
What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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Everything Four Happen Make Place Possible Story Take Wall
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.
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Child Children Fortuitouus Happen Nothing World Young
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
Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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Apart Authentic Bring Contribute Labor Life Loss Poem Poetry Space Together Violence
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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Between Know Relation Settle
[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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Art Future Innocent Judge never Often Past Revenge Shown Suffer
It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Basket Dog Dream Haire Like Open
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
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Common Emotion Envy Exist Glamour Personal Social
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
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Establish Explain Fact Facts Place Seeing Surround Undo Word World
You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Course Else Life Line Obey Other People Respect Somebody
The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
JOHN BERGER

Cigarette Dialogue Noth Parentless Proscenium Shar Time

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