But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
JOHN BERGERWe can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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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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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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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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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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