Literature is the question minus the answer.
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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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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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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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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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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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language – the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.
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Language is never innocent.
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In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott’s psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.
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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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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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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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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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