Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.
ROLAND BARTHESI have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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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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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 best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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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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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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If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? -This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.
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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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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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