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.)
ROLAND BARTHESArchitecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
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Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? -This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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New York is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.
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Someone 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?
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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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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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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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