If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a “weakness” or an “absurdity”: it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)
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 picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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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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The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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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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Why is it better to last than to burn?
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m 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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Language is never innocent.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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