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.
JOHN BERGERIf every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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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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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
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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