A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
ROLAND BARTHESLiterature is the question minus the answer.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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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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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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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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The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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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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