Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
JOHN BERGEREverything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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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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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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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