Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
JOHN BERGERWe follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
More John Berger Quotes
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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