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
JOHN BERGERThe past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
More John Berger Quotes
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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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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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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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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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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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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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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