All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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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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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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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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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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