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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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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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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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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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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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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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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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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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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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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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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