The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
ROLAND BARTHESPainting can feign reality without having seen it.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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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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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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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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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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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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