Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
JOHN BERGEREvery city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
More John Berger Quotes
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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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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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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