And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
According to whether we are in the same place or separated one from the other, I know you twice. There are two of you.
John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, 1984.
According to whether we are in the same place or separated one from the other, I know you twice. There are two of you.
When you are away, you are nevertheless present for me. This presence is multiform: it consists of countless images, passages, meanings, things known, landmarks, yet the whole remains marked by your absence, in that it is diffuse. It is as if your person becomes a place, your contours horizons. I live in you then like living in a country. You are everywhere. Yet in that country I can never meet you face to face.
John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, 1984.
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