Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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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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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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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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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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