Language is never innocent.
ROLAND BARTHESI am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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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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The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite, that obliquity into which our subject flees, the black-and-white where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
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The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Why is it better to last than to burn?
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