To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
JOHN BERGERMen look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
More John Berger Quotes
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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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 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.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
JOHN BERGER