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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
John Berger
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John Berger
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: November 5
Died: 2017
Died: January 2
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John Peter Berger
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity - their links with their dead and the unborn.
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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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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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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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