Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
JOHN BERGERParis, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
More John Berger Quotes
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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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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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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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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