The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
ROLAND BARTHESA light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).
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The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.
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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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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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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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The photographic image is a message without a code.
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