Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
JOHN BERGERThe 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
More John Berger Quotes
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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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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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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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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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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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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