Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Quote by John Berger

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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone,...

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone,...

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist...

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist...

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like...

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like...

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and...

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and...

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

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

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as...

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as...

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

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

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing...

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing...

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism...

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism...

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork....

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork....

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not...

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not...

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only...

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only...

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for...

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for...

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism...

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism...

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography....

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography....

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself....

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself....

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this...

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this...

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential...

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential...

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being...

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being...

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the...

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the...