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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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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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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why –but the editorialists forget it –terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. – John Berger

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Words
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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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Animals
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Acting is a question of absorbing other peoples personalities and adding some of your own experience. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. – Harriet Tubman

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Experience

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception. – Alan Moore

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Experience

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. – Samuel Butler

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Experience

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Power and speed be hands and feet. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The thing I fear most is fear. – Michel de Montaigne

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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold. – Eric Butterworth

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