The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
ROLAND BARTHESIs not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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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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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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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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In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The ‘anything whatever’ then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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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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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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