A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
ROLAND BARTHESThe Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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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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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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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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A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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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 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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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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