Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
ROLAND BARTHES
If 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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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.
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The realists do not take the photograph for a ‘copy’ of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
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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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The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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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 neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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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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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
ROLAND BARTHES