Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
ROLAND BARTHESSomeone 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?
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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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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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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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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