One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
ROLAND BARTHESThe photographic image is a message without a code.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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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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If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a “weakness” or an “absurdity”: it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)
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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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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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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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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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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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To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
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