What love lays bare in me is energy.
ROLAND BARTHESThose who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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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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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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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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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language – the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.
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The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or “filiation”), the Text is without a source – the “author” a mere “guest” at the reading of the Text.
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