Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
ROLAND BARTHESI make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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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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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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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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Language is never innocent.
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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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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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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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