Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
JOHN BERGERThe century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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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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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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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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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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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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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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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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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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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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