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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

John Berger

Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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Beloved Clothes Home Honeycomb Like Lip Milk Smell Tongue
Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Discredit Great Hijacking Today Word
Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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Artist Celebrity Country Drawing Epson Expert Like Most Often People Picasso Rembrandts
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.
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Consequences Exactly Past Prisoner Wish
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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Adjustment Against Derive Hope Injustice Justice Little Protest Shouting
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Children Looks Speak Recognize Word
A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Allow Boycott Consider Craven Distinct Elected Government People Pressure Tactic
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
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
A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Everything Meamimgless Object Particular Photograph Recording Result
The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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Feel May Minimize Monopoly Need Passion Sexual Spectator Such Women
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
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Book Inhabit Like Reading Real Roof Story Wall
If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Community Everything Exist Meaningless Photograph
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.
JOHN BERGER

Accident Anything Birth Impossible Injustice May Nothing Remain
[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.
JOHN BERGER

Art Future Innocent Judge never Often Past Revenge Shown Suffer

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