When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
JOHN BERGERThe relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
More John Berger Quotes
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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