Literature is the question minus the answer.
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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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.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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The realists do not take the photograph for a ‘copy’ of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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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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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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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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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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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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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.
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