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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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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. – John Berger

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Grief, Grieving
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. – John Berger

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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. – John Berger

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Photography
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He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. – John Fletcher

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I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator. – Emo Philips

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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