To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
ROLAND BARTHESHow does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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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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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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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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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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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
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We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite, that obliquity into which our subject flees, the black-and-white where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
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The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
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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 photographic image is a message without a code.
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