Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
JOHN BERGERBuildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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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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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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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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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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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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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