What love lays bare in me is energy.
ROLAND BARTHESEvery photograph is a certificate of presence.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite, that obliquity into which our subject flees, the black-and-white where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a “weakness” or an “absurdity”: it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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