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.
JOHN BERGERJohn Berger Quotes
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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.
JOHN BERGER
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
JOHN BERGER
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
JOHN BERGER
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
JOHN BERGER
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
JOHN BERGER
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If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
JOHN BERGER
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
JOHN BERGER
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
JOHN BERGER
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
JOHN BERGER
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To be naked is to be oneself.
JOHN BERGER