Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
ROLAND BARTHESToday there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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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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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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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 lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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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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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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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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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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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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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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