To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?
ROLAND BARTHESA light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Language is never innocent.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
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The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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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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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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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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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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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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