To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
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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 is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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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 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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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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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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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it’s the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.
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Why is it better to last than to burn?
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