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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.

John Berger

These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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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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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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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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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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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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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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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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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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