You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
JOHN BERGEREvery authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
More John Berger Quotes
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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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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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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