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 BARTHESAs Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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Language is never innocent.
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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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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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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Why is it better to last than to burn?
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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 lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
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