To be naked is to be oneself.
JOHN BERGERIt 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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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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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.
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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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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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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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