This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
ROLAND BARTHESTo eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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Language is never innocent.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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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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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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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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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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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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Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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