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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

John Berger

Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
JOHN BERGER

Neither Product Truth Utopian Writer
This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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Accept Callous Human Inhuman Know Live Society Worth
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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Earth Field Gesture Imagination Paint Ploughed Reality Road Roadmaker Turn Warth
Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Contraband Hand Stories
Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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Animal Beyond Blindly Encounter Flicker Gaze Look Most Pass Stranger
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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Common Emotion Envy Exist Glamour Personal Social
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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Between Know Relation Settle
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Book Cover Four Inhabit Reading Roof Wall
Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Capitalism Country Define Exploit Interest Majority Narrow Possible Survive Today
What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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Absorb Activity Draw Else Everything Forget Happen Mean Think Thinking
A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Arches Breathing Cigarettes Parentless Space
This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Determine Effection Men Most Only Relation Relationship Themselves Wome
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
JOHN BERGER

Beauty Condemned Display Dresses Naked Nue Place
The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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Change Constellation Event Imagining Night People Sky Surround Threaded
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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Addresses Adorable Contradiction God Image Perspective Reality Really Single Spectator Structure Unlike
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
JOHN BERGER

Age Believe City Every Nothing Sex Teenager

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