The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
ROLAND BARTHESTouch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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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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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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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
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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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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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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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