Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
JOHN BERGERWriters who have neither product utopian trash.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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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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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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