We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
JOHN BERGERIt dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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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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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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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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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 woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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