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Them Quotes by John Berger
- 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.
- 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…
- Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing…
- The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems…
- 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.
- Cow and horse dung, as muckgoes, are relatively agreeable. You can even become nostalgic about them. They smell of fermented grain, and on the far…
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