Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
ROLAND BARTHESToday there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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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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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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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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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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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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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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