To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
ROLAND BARTHESIf I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a “weakness” or an “absurdity”: it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
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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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As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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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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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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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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I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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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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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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