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.
JOHN BERGERYou can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
More John Berger Quotes
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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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.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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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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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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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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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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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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