A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
ROLAND BARTHESWhat love lays bare in me is energy.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
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Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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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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New York is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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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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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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Language is never innocent.
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Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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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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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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