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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. – John Berger

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Publicity is the life of this culture — in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive — and at the same time publicity is its dream. – John Berger

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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. – John Berger

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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, hasnt changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. – John Berger

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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. – Aeschylus

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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved – Mason Cooley

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I never admire anothers fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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