Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
ROLAND BARTHESFrontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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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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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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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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If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a “weakness” or an “absurdity”: it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)
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Why is it better to last than to burn?
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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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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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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.
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Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it’s the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.
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When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
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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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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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