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.
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 relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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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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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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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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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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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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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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