That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
JOHN BERGERGlamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
More John Berger Quotes
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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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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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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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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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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The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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