The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
ROLAND BARTHESIs not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
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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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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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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a “weakness” or an “absurdity”: it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.
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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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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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