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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

John Berger

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
JOHN BERGER

According Event Events Plan Plans
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Beauty Condemned Display Dresses Naked Nue Place
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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Contradiction Interest Meeting Natural Photo Photographer Place Use Viewer
Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Basic Best Compassion Necessity Oppose Order Therefore World
Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Contraband Hand Stories
The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Back Herself Love Offer Price Product Publicity Stealing
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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Always Constitute History Past Present Relation
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 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
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
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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Alone Beautiful Believe Crystal Deeply Existence Less More Nature Ours Poppy
Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Discredit Great Hijacking Today Word
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
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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Apart Authentic Contribute Labor Poem Poetry Separate Together Violence
Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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Consider Essential Inseparable Nature Need Pain Pleasure Sense Space Together
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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Comic Connection Connections Draw Drawing Metaphor Reconnect Separate Upon Way

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