The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
ROLAND BARTHESDon’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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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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Why is it better to last than to burn?
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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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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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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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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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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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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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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