All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
JOHN BERGERShe 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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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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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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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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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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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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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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