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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. – 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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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress. – John Berger

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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. – John Berger

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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. – Henri Bergson

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What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for. – American Indian Proverb

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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you dont find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. – James Barrie

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated. – Proverb

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