Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
JOHN BERGER
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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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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