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.
ROLAND BARTHESEvery exploration is an appropriation.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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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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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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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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Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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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 eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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