When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
ROLAND BARTHES
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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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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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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The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things
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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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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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Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it’s the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
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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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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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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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