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 BARTHESWhat love lays bare in me is energy.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things
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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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As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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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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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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The photographic image is a message without a code.
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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
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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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