This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
ROLAND BARTHESA picture is never anything but its own plural description.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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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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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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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.
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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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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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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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.
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To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?
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Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
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