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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.

John Berger

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Achieve All Art Cinema Mankind People Save Sky Spontaneous
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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Chosen Emigration Experience Forced Metropolis National Time Village
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 Cover Four Inhabit Reading Roof Wall
You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Bureaucrat Greater Illusion Impersonal Interest Observe Others Power Themselves
The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Invisible Photograph Play Time True
Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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Communication Emotive Network Pace Permanent Propaganda Reflection Require Slogan Stifie Systematically
What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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Connect Difficult Significant Statement Strange Understand
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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Change Constellation Event Imagining Night People Sky Surround Threaded
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Animal Away Become Fond Glad Peasant Pig Pigs Pork Two
The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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Female Herself Object Sight Surveyed Turn Vision Woman
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
To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Anybody Closest Desire Feeling Immortal Life
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
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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Argument Diversion Opposite Same Screen Struggle Towards Truthfulness Use Word Writing
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
It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Allow Artist Certain Colour Comparitively Dominate Easy Mute Together Unity

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