We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
ROLAND BARTHESIs not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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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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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).
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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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To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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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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