Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
JOHN BERGERProtest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
More John Berger Quotes
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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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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.
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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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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Your 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.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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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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