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).
ROLAND BARTHESThis endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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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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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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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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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 have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
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The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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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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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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