This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
JOHN BERGERAutobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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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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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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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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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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