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.
JOHN BERGERParis, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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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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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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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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