The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
ROLAND BARTHESEvery photograph is a certificate of presence.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
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Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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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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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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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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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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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 birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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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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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Language is never innocent.
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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