Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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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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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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