Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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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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How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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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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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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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 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 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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