The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
JOHN BERGERA cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
More John Berger Quotes
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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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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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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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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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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