Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
ROLAND BARTHESTo make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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The realists do not take the photograph for a ‘copy’ of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
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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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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
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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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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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