Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
ROLAND BARTHESI try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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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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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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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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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.
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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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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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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