The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
ROLAND BARTHESWhen we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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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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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or “filiation”), the Text is without a source – the “author” a mere “guest” at the reading of the Text.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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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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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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