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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.

John Berger

What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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Animal Capacity Development First Human In Language Men Separate Signal Symbolic
To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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Naked Oneness Oneself Order Other Recognize Sight
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Look Love Men Women
Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Blindness Chosen Come Dogma Fantacism Form Pursuit
Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Believe City Country Love Man Men Older Twenties Woman
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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Burden Camera Forget God Like Memories Photography Relieve Survey Us Yet
To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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Anybody Closest Desire Feeling Immortal Life
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Artist Country Event Influence might Outgoing Political Themselves Time Tragedies
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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Apart Authentic Contribute Labor Poem Poetry Separate Together Violence
As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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Boycott Celebrity Circumstance Country Depend Government People Person Pont Principle Tactic Upon Way
Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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Alone Carry Century Chair Clothes Heart Later Learn Like Live Poem Poet Read Want
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Common Emotion Envy Exist Glamour Personal Social
We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Between Just never One Ourselves Thing
The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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Both Case Common Hate Love Opposite Separate Something
The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Animal Look Offer Opportunity Public Purpose Visitor Zoos
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
JOHN BERGER

Blind Bottle Come Encounter Impulse Medicine Mountain Observation Soul

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