A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
ROLAND BARTHESThe lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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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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Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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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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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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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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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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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
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