It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
ROLAND BARTHESThe photographic image is a message without a code.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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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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Why is it better to last than to burn?
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The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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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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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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Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or “filiation”), the Text is without a source – the “author” a mere “guest” at the reading of the Text.
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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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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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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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Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language – the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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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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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not–this is the beginning of writing.
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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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Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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