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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.

John Berger

It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Basket Dog Dream Haire Like Open
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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Accident Anything Birth Impossible Injustice May Nothing Remain
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Children Looks Speak Recognize Word
Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Death Flirting Flow Life Photography
What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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Absorb Activity Draw Else Everything Forget Happen Mean Think Thinking
The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Century Close Disappear Helpless Horizon Other People See
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Aqtch Look Men Sight Vision Women
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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Act Around Evil Human Inhuman Nature Need Nothing Repeated Talking Way
We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Between Just never One Ourselves Thing
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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Between Know Relation Settle
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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Before Century Poverty Priorities Result Scarcity Set World
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
I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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Around Help Look Marvelous People See Terrible Want World Writing
It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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Between Explicit Fully Make Relationship Stories Trying Universal Usually Writing
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
This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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Accept Callous Human Inhuman Know Live Society Worth

The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.

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