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

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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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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. – 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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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten. – Proverb

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Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Dont count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it! – Edwin C. Bliss

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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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