Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
ROLAND BARTHESTo 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.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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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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The realists do not take the photograph for a ‘copy’ of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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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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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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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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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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