What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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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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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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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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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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.
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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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The photographic image is a message without a code.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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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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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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