We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
ROLAND BARTHES
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).
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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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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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
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Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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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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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
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