Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
ROLAND BARTHESTo whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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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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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Language is never innocent.
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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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Why is it better to last than to burn?
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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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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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To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?
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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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