Burden of Memory

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     The camera relieves us of the burden of memory ...

     records in order to forget.

       John Berger

Empathy

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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

George Eliot, Middlemarch

… what those lines suggest is that if we had complete empathy, if we could understand how people are from the inside, we would be capable of loving them as God loved them.

Zadie Smith, In Conversation with Zadie Smith by Eleanor Wachtel

Becoming human

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Mensch werden ist eine Kunst – to become a human being is art.

Novalis (Georg Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg)

Upright

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There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is, upright.

Dylan Thomas

The World

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The world is not like a picture painted by an artist centuries ago which now hangs untouchable in a museum. It is more like a work of art in constant process of creation, still in a studio.

Ernesto Cardenal