Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
ROLAND BARTHESTo make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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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?
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Literature 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.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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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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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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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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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 new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
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Language is never innocent.
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