A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
JOHN BERGERA peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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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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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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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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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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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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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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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 surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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