A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
JOHN BERGERTo be naked is to be oneself.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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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.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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