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.
ROLAND BARTHESIs not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
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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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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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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 new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
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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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Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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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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Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language – the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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