A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
JOHN BERGERAutobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
More John Berger Quotes
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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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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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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.
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