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?
ROLAND BARTHESMyth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
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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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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or “filiation”), the Text is without a source – the “author” a mere “guest” at the reading of the Text.
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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 art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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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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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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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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Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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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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