Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
JOHN BERGERThe past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
More John Berger Quotes
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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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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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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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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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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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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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.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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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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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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