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!
ROLAND BARTHESThe book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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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.)
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Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Language is never innocent.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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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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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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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).
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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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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