We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
ROLAND BARTHESWhy is it better to last than to burn?
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.
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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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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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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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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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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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As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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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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Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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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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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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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 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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