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.
ROLAND BARTHESTo try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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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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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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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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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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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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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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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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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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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 eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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