Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
ROLAND BARTHESThe haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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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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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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A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
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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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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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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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Language is never innocent.
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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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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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? -This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.
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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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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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