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?
ROLAND BARTHES
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.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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New York is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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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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In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott’s psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.
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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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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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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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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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