It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
JOHN BERGERThe 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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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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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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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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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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