Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
JOHN BERGERAll weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
More John Berger Quotes
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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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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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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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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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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