Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
JOHN BERGEROne can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
More John Berger Quotes
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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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 existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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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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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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