We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
JOHN BERGERWhen 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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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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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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