Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
ROLAND BARTHESHe who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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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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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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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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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
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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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Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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The realists do not take the photograph for a ‘copy’ of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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