Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
JOHN BERGEREverything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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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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