All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
ROLAND BARTHESThe politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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 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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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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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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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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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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To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not–this is the beginning of writing.
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Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it’s the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
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Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
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How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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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 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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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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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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