Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
ROLAND BARTHESWhereas 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.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not–this is the beginning of writing.
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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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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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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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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He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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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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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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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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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things
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