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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.

John Berger

Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Action Choice Determine Ethics Priorities Suggests
You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Course Else Life Line Obey Other People Respect Somebody
Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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Around Close Conquer Country Door Frame Look Place Renaissance Screen Survey Window
To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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Amouingest Countrymen Die Fellow Foreigner Less Live May Moving Persecuted Seem Torture World
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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Forget Opposite Other Pain Painting Photography Remind Way
It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Allow Artist Certain Colour Comparitively Dominate Easy Mute Together Unity
Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Become Commodity Everything Exchangeable
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Century Disappearance Enforce Horizon Our People Travel
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Inspirational Light Material Photography Primary
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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Allow Boycott Consider Craven Distinct Elected Government People Pressure Tactic
[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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Art Future Innocent Judge never Often Past Revenge Shown Suffer
The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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Female Herself Object Sight Surveyed Turn Vision Woman
Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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Different Forget Look Meaning Pain Remember Thing
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Age Believe City Every Nothing Sex Teenager
The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Country Doors Heart House Interior Two Unending
She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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Envy Herself Imagine Justify Loving Menat Object Other Product Transform

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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