Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
JOHN BERGERHair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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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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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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