To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
ROLAND BARTHESA 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.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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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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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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