If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total … - John Berger

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Youth are active partners in Gujarat's development! Gujarat's approach towards skill development has been flexible, broad based, inclusive and with a long-term vision.

John Berger

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.

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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

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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.

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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.

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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination

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Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through. . . whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

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