Quote by John Berger
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. -

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. – John Berger

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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

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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. – John Berger

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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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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated into a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. – Spiro T. Agnew

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I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again, – Charlotte Barnard

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There is a way to look at the past. Dont hide from it. It will not catch you — if you dont repeat it. – Pearl Bailey

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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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