Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
JOHN BERGERYour lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
More John Berger Quotes
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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