What love lays bare in me is energy.
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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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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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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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?
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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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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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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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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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