One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
ROLAND BARTHESLanguage is never innocent.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.
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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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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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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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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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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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How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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The photographic image is a message without a code.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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