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.
JOHN BERGERThe spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
More John Berger Quotes
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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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 can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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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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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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