Literature is the question minus the answer.
ROLAND BARTHESThrough the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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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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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 Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
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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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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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We 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.
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things
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The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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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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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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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 author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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