You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
JOHN BERGERTracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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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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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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