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

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Publicity is the life of this culture — in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive — and at the same time publicity is its dream. – John Berger

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