There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
ROLAND BARTHESPainting can feign reality without having seen it.
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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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it’s the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.
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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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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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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Language is never innocent.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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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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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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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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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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