Today the discredit of words is very great.

JOHN BERGER

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Today the discredit of words is very great.

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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.

JOHN BERGER

The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
JOHN BERGER

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

JOHN BERGER

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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Calculate Draws Invisible Make Observed Something Visible
When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.

JOHN BERGER

When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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Gesture Ploughed Roadmaker Warth
Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

JOHN BERGER

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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City Older Twenties
We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Only See
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Lullabies Swaddled Year
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.

JOHN BERGER

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.
JOHN BERGER

Between Explicit Fully Make Stories Trying Universal Usually
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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Behind Bourgeois Building Conservatories Furniture Galleries Go Shutting Way
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Cover Four Inhabit
For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal

JOHN BERGER

For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Behind Biographical Curtain Geographical Landmark Longer
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

JOHN BERGER

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Glamour
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.

JOHN BERGER

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
JOHN BERGER

Exactly Prisoner Wish
This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.

JOHN BERGER

This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
JOHN BERGER

Accept Callous Inhuman Know
If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

JOHN BERGER

If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Community Everything Meaningless
The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

JOHN BERGER

The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Century Helpless Other See
These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.

JOHN BERGER

These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
JOHN BERGER

Ambiguity Contradiction Image Increase Photo

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