It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
ROLAND BARTHESI love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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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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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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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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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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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a “weakness” or an “absurdity”: it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
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Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
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Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it’s the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
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