How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
ROLAND BARTHESI make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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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 love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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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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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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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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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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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.
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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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