What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
JOHN BERGERParis, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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To be naked is to be oneself.
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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