The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
JOHN BERGERParis, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
More John Berger Quotes
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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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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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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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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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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.
JOHN BERGER