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

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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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Is boredom anything less than the sense of ones faculties slowly dying? – John Berger

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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. – John Berger

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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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It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it. – Kenneth Auchincloss

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Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity. – John Adams

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