"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
-John Berger
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"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.“
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"Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon."
-John Berger
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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."
-John Berger
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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."
-John Berger
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"That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe."
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"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."
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"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
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"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
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"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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