Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
JOHN BERGERThe poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
More John Berger Quotes
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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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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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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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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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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