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.
ROLAND BARTHESA light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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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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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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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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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Language is never innocent.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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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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The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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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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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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