He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
ROLAND BARTHESThe new is not a fashion, it is a value.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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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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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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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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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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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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