We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
ROLAND BARTHESWe can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite, that obliquity into which our subject flees, the black-and-white where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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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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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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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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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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The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.
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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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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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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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Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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