The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
JOHN BERGERParis, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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 power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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