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 BARTHESThe birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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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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As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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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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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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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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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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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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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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