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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan

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. – John Berger

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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but. – 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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Let your mind alone, and see what happens. – Virgil Thomson

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I do read books. I suppose its more or less the same thing, but at least Im alone and Im an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do. – Jack Vance

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To live alone is the fate of all great souls. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Lifes an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. – Emily Carr

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