Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
JOHN BERGEROurs is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
More John Berger Quotes
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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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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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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