This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
JOHN BERGERTo be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
More John Berger Quotes
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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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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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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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
JOHN BERGER