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

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Past, the

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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Past, the

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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Past, the

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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Past, the

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When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light. – Terri Guillemets

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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. – John Stuart Mill

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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. – William Butler Yeats

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I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life. – Charles Horton Cooley

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Ego