Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
ROLAND BARTHESA light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
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In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott’s psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.
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I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.
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If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
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As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?
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The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
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I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.
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Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.
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How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
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I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
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