Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
ROLAND BARTHESLiterature is the question minus the answer.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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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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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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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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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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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 never innocent.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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