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Roland Barthes

The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
ROLAND BARTHES

Creation Education School
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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Beyond Image Meaning
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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Age Experience Old Specific Vision
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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Existence Law Natural Object Silence Society State
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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Body Desire Life Love Myself
Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Better Burn Last Myself
Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Mourning Myself Suffering
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Answer Literature Question
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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Evidence Literature Trouble Understand
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Emotional Sexuality
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Existence Language Man Position
Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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Design Myself Reading Writing
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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Classification Desire Myself Speciality Stereotype Truth Unique
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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Bliss Image Knowledge Mythology World

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