The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
ROLAND BARTHESI 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.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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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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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it’s the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.
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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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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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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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