Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
JOHN BERGEROne of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
More John Berger Quotes
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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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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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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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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