By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
JOHN BERGERWe who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
More John Berger Quotes
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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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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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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.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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