Quote by John Berger
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that i

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

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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why –but the editorialists forget it –terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. – John Berger

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Words
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. – John Berger

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Envy / Jealousy
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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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Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones. – Proverb

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Grief, Grieving

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of ones inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness. – Coleman Dowell

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Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comet in the morning. Psalms 30:5 – Bible

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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears. – Paul Harris

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The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power. – James Lovelock

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The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth. – Jean de la Bruyere

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When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy. – Gennaro Angiulo

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