The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
JOHN BERGER
What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
More John Berger Quotes
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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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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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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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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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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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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