Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
ROLAND BARTHESIs not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Language is never innocent.
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or “filiation”), the Text is without a source – the “author” a mere “guest” at the reading of the Text.
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Why is it better to last than to burn?
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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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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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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.
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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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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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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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