The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
ROLAND BARTHESWe don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
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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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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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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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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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To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not–this is the beginning of writing.
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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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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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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
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