For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
JOHN BERGERWhen we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
More John Berger Quotes
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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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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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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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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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.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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