Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
JOHN BERGERThe century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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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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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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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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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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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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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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