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).
ROLAND BARTHESToday there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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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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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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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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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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