The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
ROLAND BARTHESIsn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language – the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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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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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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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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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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Language is never innocent.
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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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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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