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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. – John Berger

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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasnt changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. – John Berger

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City Life, Cities
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John Berger
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. – John Berger

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Photography
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Publicity is the life of this culture — in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive — and at the same time publicity is its dream. – John Berger

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Capitalism
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written. – Fareed Zakaria

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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. – William Ellery Channing

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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of ones identity as a being of worth and dignity. – Rollo May

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I think any spiritual experience thats worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, If youre not laughing, then youre not getting it. – David O. Russell

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Food can become such a point of anxiety – not because its food, but just because you have anxiety. Thats how eating disorders develop. – Vanessa Carlton

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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. – Theodore Roosevelt

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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark. – Roland Barthes

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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. – Aleister Crowley, Book of Lies

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