Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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 text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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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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How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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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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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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To 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.
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The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Language is never innocent.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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