Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
JOHN BERGERWe who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
More John Berger Quotes
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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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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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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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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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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