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
JOHN BERGERIt dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
More John Berger Quotes
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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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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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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