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.
ROLAND BARTHESIt must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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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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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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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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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 Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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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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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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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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