One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
ROLAND BARTHESMan does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Language is never innocent.
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I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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I 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.
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Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
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