To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
ROLAND BARTHESTelevision doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
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When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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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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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Why is it better to last than to burn?
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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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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Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language – the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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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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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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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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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The ‘anything whatever’ then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.
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