One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
JOHN BERGERThe power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
More John Berger Quotes
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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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 unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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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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