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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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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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me its something that theatre can do, but its rare; its very rare. – John Berger

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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten. – Proverb

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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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The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round. – Arnold Bennett

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

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For a moment I lost myself, actually lost my life. I was set free! I belonged, without past or future, within peace and unity and a wild joy, within something greater than my own life . . . to life itself. I caught a glimpse of something greater than myself. – Eugene ONeill

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