Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
ROLAND BARTHESI make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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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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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 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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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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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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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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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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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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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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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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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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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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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
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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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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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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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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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