Quote by John Berger
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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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

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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. – John Berger

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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. – John Berger

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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. – Aeschylus

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The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. – Joseph Addison

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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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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one – Joan Didion

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