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.
JOHN BERGERA cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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