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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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John Berger
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: November 5
Died: 2017
Died: January 2
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. 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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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.
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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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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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