Quote by John Berger
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The cent

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. – John Berger

Other quotes by John Berger

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

Category:
Grief, Grieving
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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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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

Category:
Animals
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Other Quotes from
Travel
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My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce. – Rick Larsen

Category:
Travel

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didnt know really know what I would do to get there. – Rachel Stevens

Category:
Travel

People think Im crazy because I travel too much, but I havent been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and Ive tried to take care of it. – Lee Hazlewood

Category:
Travel

I didnt realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of different ages, and I get to travel all over the world. – Lisa Loeb

Category:
Travel

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Promise me youll always remember: Youre braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. – A. A. Milne

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Intelligence

Its nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre. – David Guetta

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amazing

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So its not that hope is going to save you. – Elizabeth Edwards

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The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: its a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil. – Alain de Botton

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respect