But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
JOHN BERGERNever chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
More John Berger Quotes
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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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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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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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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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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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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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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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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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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