What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
ROLAND BARTHESGreat portrait photographers are great mythologists.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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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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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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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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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
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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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Why is it better to last than to burn?
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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