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1. "The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness." ~ John Berger

2. "I was scared of one thing after another. I still am.Naturally. How could it be otherwise? You can either be fearless or you can be free, you can't be both." ~ John Berger

3. "At some point when tending someone you love who is in pain, you reach the edge of a lake, and you look at each other with such joy at the stillness. [Letter unsent]" ~ John Berger

4. "I've learnt something more. The expectation of a body can last as long as any hope. Like mine expecting yours. As soon as they gave you two life sentences, I stopped believing in their time." ~ John Berger

5. "Publicity is in essence, nostalgic. It has to sell the past to the future... According to publicity, to be sophisticated is to live beyond conflict." ~ John Berger

6. "Yildiz kümelerni ilk kesfedip onlara ad veren öykücülerdi. Bir avuç yildiz arasina düssel bir çizgi çekince kimlik ve birer imge kazaniyordu yildizlar. Çizgiye islenmis yildizlar bir anlatiya islenmis olaylar gibiydi. Yildizlarin küme olusturdugunu düslemek kuskusuz ne yildizlari ne de onlari çeviren kara boslugu degistirdi. Degistirdigi sey insanlarin geceleyin gögü okuma biçimiydi." ~ John Berger

7. "Gerçekte hep iki zaman arasindayizdir: Gövdenin ve bilincin zamani arasinda. Bütün öbür kültürlerdeki ruh ve gözde arasindaki ayrim iste buradan kaynaklanir. Öncelik her zaman ruhundur ve yeri bir baska zamanin aktigi çizgidedir." ~ John Berger

8. "The silence after a felled tree has fallen is like the silence immediately after a death. The same sense of culmination." ~ John Berger

9. "english autumn mornings are often like mornings nowhere else in the world.The air is cold.The floorboards are cold.It is perhaps this coldness which sharpens the tang of the hot cup of tea. Outside, steps on the gravel crunch a little more loudly than a month ago because of the very slight frost" ~ John Berger

10. "The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich." ~ John Berger

11. "Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma." ~ John Berger

12. "One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man." ~ John Berger

13. "Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument." ~ John Berger

14. "Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion." ~ John Berger

15. "Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all." ~ John Berger

16. "'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event." ~ John Berger

17. "For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true." ~ John Berger

18. "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." ~ John Berger

19. "A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds." ~ John Berger

20. "Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart… 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." ~ John Berger

21. "Sorrel soup:"You cut the egg into slices, and you eat it with the green soup. And the mixture of the sharp green acidity and the round comfort of the egg reminds you of something extraordinary and far away.Of home?Certainly not, not even for Poles.Of what then?...Of survival, perhaps." ~ John Berger

22. "Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity." ~ John Berger

23. "They can't foresee what we intend to do next. This is why they lose their nerve. They can't cross the zone of silence they herd us into. A zone bordered on their side by the distant din of their false accusations, and on our side by our silent final intentions." ~ John Berger

24. "If you have to cry, he said, and sometimes you can't help it, if you have to cry, cry afterwards, never during! Remember this. Unless you're with those who love you, only those who love you, and in that case you're already lucky, for there are never many who love you — if you're with them, you can cry during. Otherwise you cry afterwards" ~ John Berger

25. "No place for illusions here. The beat doesn't stop solitude, it doesn't cure pain, you can't telephone it - it's simply a reminder that you belong to a shared story." ~ John Berger

26. "We are accused of being obsessed by property. The truth is the other way round. It is the society and culture in question which is so obsessed. Yet to an obsessive his obsession always seems to be of the nature of things and so is not recognized for what it is. The relation between property and art in European culture appears natural to that culture, and consequently if somebody demonstrates the extent of the property interest in a given cultural field, it is said to be a demonstration of his obsession. And this allows the Cultural Establishment to project for a little longer its false rationalized image of itself." ~ John Berger

27. "The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing to correct) is that the artist is the creator. Rather he is a reciever. What seems like creaton is the act of giving form to what he has recieved." ~ John Berger

28. "uygarligin olmadigi yerlerde ev bir evle degil, bir eylem ya da eylemler kümesiyle temsil edilir. herkesinki kendine özgüdür. bir zorunluluk duyulmadan seçilmis eylemler kendi içlerinde geçici olabilirlr belki, ama herhangi bir binadan daha kalici ve saglam siginaklar sunarlar. Ev o zaman bir mekan olmaktan çikar, yasanan bir hayatin anlatilmamis öyküsü olur. En can alici noktaysa, evin aslinda insanin adindan baska bir sey olmadigidir - birçok kisiye göre de insan adsizdir." ~ John Berger

29. "The 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." ~ John Berger

30. "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." ~ John Berger

31. "Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing." ~ John Berger

32. "Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one." ~ John Berger

33. "What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones and mine are buried, thrown, uncovered, together. They are strewn there pell-mell. One of your ribs leans against my skull. A metacarpal of my left hand lies inside your pelvis. (Against my broken ribs your breast like a flower.) The hundred bones of our feet are scattered like gravel. It is strange that this image of our proximity, concerning as it does mere phosphate of calcium, should bestow a sense of peace. Yet it does. With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough." ~ John Berger

34. "Hold Everything Dear" ~ John Berger

35. "So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went along with it, consenting, for it reminded us both of a sadness that had passed." ~ John Berger

36. "All its dimensions with their projected geometries are those of an unrealisible dream." ~ John Berger

37. "To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal." ~ John Berger

38. "Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking." ~ John Berger

39. "Resmin ilk konusu hayvanlardi. Ve en bastan baslayip Sümer, Asur, Misir ve ilk dönem Yunan resminde devam eden bir çizgide, bu hayvanlarin tasvirleri olaganüstü derecede hakikidir. Insan gövdesinin tasvirinde esdeger bir ‘gerçek-gibi'lige ulasilmasi için binyillarin geçmesi gerekmistir. Baslangiçta insanin yüzlestigi, varolandi."sayfa 30" ~ John Berger

40. "Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural." ~ John Berger

41. "When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own." ~ John Berger

42. "The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget." ~ John Berger

43. "Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress." ~ John Berger

44. "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." ~ John Berger

45. "The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open." ~ John Berger

46. "You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events." ~ John Berger

47. "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

48. "History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past" ~ John Berger

49. "When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together." ~ John Berger

50. "If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories." ~ John Berger

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