Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
JOHN BERGERIt 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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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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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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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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