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John Berger Quotes: Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
         

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.


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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.



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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.



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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.



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.

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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