One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
ROLAND BARTHESOne 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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Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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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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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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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 Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
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The realists do not take the photograph for a ‘copy’ of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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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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