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The garden is a kind of sanctuary. — John Berger

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

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. — John Berger

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

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story. — John Berger

The Creationists, like all bigots, derive their fervour from rejection
the more they can reject, the more righteous they themselves feel. — John Berger

Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing. — John Berger

The zoo cannot but disappoint. — John Berger

Mystification has little to do with the vocabulary used. Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident — John Berger

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. — John Berger

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

All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different. — John Berger

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. — John Berger

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

Never again will a single story be told as though its the only one. — John Berger

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

Hold Everything Dear — John Berger

Preachers love only their own voices. — John Berger

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

The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product. — John Berger

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

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. — John Berger

To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant. — John Berger

In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous. — John Berger

I have never thought of writing as a profession. It is a solitary independent activity in which practice can never bestow seniority. — John Berger

The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years. — John Berger

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass. — John Berger

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger. — John Berger

There is no word in any traditional European language which does not either denigrate or patronize the urban poor it is naming. That is power. — John Berger

We who draw do so not only to make something visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination. — John Berger