Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
ROLAND BARTHESDon’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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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 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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Language is never innocent.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a “weakness” or an “absurdity”: it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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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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When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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