But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
JOHN BERGERNothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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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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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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