This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
JOHN BERGERA man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
More John Berger Quotes
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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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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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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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 extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality… could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.
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