The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
ROLAND BARTHESLiterature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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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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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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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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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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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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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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In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott’s psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.
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All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
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To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
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