Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
JOHN BERGERThis is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
More John Berger Quotes
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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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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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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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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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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