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Roland Barthes quotes: To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark. To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.
Roland Barthes quotes: The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.
Roland Barthes quotes: The lover's discourse is usually a smooth envelope which encases the Image, a very gentle glove around the loved being. The lover's discourse is usually a smooth envelope which encases the Image, a very gentle glove around the loved being.
Roland Barthes quotes: I can't get to know you" means "I shall never know what you really think of me." I cannot decipher you because I do not know how you decipher me. I can't get to know you" means "I shall never know what you really think of me." I cannot decipher you because I do not know how you decipher me.
Roland Barthes quotes: - You have never known a Woman's body! - I have known the body of my mother, sick and then dying. - You have never known a Woman's body!
- I have known the body of my mother, sick and then dying.
Roland Barthes quotes: The New is not a fashion, it is a value. The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
Roland Barthes quotes: Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks. Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
Roland Barthes quotes: Every exploration is an appropriation. Every exploration is an appropriation.
Roland Barthes quotes: 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. 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.
Roland Barthes quotes: I have not a desire but a need for solitude. I have not a desire but a need for solitude.
Roland Barthes quotes: Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering. Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
Roland Barthes quotes: I ask for nothing but to live in my suffering. I ask for nothing but to live in my suffering.
Roland Barthes quotes: My claim is to live to the full contradiction of my time My claim is to live to the full contradiction of my time
Roland Barthes quotes: Everyone is "extremely nice" - and yet I feel entirely alone. ("Abandonitis"). Everyone is "extremely nice" - and yet I feel entirely alone. ("Abandonitis").
Roland Barthes quotes: What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially. What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
Roland Barthes quotes: Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is. Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
Roland Barthes quotes: Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions
Roland Barthes quotes: A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve. A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
Roland Barthes quotes: What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Roland Barthes quotes: To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity". To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".
Roland Barthes quotes: It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental. It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
Roland Barthes quotes: I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples. I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
Roland Barthes quotes: The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
Roland Barthes quotes: Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
Roland Barthes quotes: Great portrait photographers are great mythologists. Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
Roland Barthes quotes: There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
Roland Barthes quotes: Isolation and competition are inhospitable to learning. Isolation and competition are inhospitable to learning.
Roland Barthes quotes: As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound. As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
Roland Barthes quotes: Flaubert had infinite correction to perform. Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.
Roland Barthes quotes: A picture is never anything but its own plural description. A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
Roland Barthes quotes: Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision. Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
Roland Barthes quotes: The necessary condition for an image is sight, The necessary condition for an image is sight,
Roland Barthes quotes: Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin.
Roland Barthes quotes: I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun. I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
Roland Barthes quotes: I make the other's absence responsible for my worldliness. I make the other's absence responsible for my worldliness.
Roland Barthes quotes: To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin. To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
Roland Barthes quotes: The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
Roland Barthes quotes: One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking. One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
Roland Barthes quotes: The cultural work done in the past by gods and epic sagas is now done by laundry-detergent commercials and comic-strip character The cultural work done in the past by gods and epic sagas is now done by laundry-detergent commercials and comic-strip character
Roland Barthes quotes: Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
Roland Barthes quotes: Boredom is not far from bliss: it is bliss seen from the shores of pleasure. Boredom is not far from bliss: it is bliss seen from the shores of pleasure.
Roland Barthes quotes: Every photograph is a certificate of presence. Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
Roland Barthes quotes: The author enters into his own death, writing begins. The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
Roland Barthes quotes: The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition ... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition ... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
Roland Barthes quotes: 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. 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.
Roland Barthes quotes: The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art. The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
Roland Barthes quotes: [T]he most repugnant bastard there is: the bastard-octopus. [T]he most repugnant bastard there is: the bastard-octopus.
Roland Barthes quotes: We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense. We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
Roland Barthes quotes: I pass lightly through the reactionary darkness. I pass lightly through the reactionary darkness.
Roland Barthes quotes: I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one. I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
Roland Barthes quotes: Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body? Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?
Roland Barthes quotes: Painting can feign reality without having seen it. Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
Roland Barthes quotes: What I hide by my language, my body utters. What I hide by my language, my body utters.
Roland Barthes quotes: A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem. A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.
Roland Barthes quotes: The Text is not a definitive object. The Text is not a definitive object.
Roland Barthes quotes: Any demand is frigid until desire, until neurosis forms in it. Any demand is frigid until desire, until neurosis forms in it.
Roland Barthes quotes: Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere. Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
Roland Barthes quotes: To eat steak rare ... represents both a nature and a morality. To eat steak rare ... represents both a nature and a morality.
Roland Barthes quotes: Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order. Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order.
Roland Barthes quotes: I live in my suffering and that makes me happy.Anything that keeps me from living in my suffering is unbearable to me. I live in my suffering and that makes me happy.
Anything that keeps me from living in my suffering is unbearable to me.
Roland Barthes quotes: This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival. This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
Roland Barthes quotes: Above all, do not attempt to be exhaustive. Above all, do not attempt to be exhaustive.
Roland Barthes quotes: It is my desire I desire, and the loved being is no more than its tool. It is my desire I desire, and the loved being is no more than its tool.
Roland Barthes quotes: I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me. I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
Roland Barthes quotes: There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence. There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence.
Roland Barthes quotes: SuicideHow would I know I don't suffer any more, if I'm dead? Suicide
How would I know I don't suffer any more, if I'm dead?
Roland Barthes quotes: In the sentence "She's no longer suffering," to what, to whom does "she" refer? What does that present tense mean? In the sentence "She's no longer suffering," to what, to whom does "she" refer? What does that present tense mean?
Roland Barthes quotes: It exists only for me. For you, it would be nothing but an indifferent picture. It exists only for me. For you, it would be nothing but an indifferent picture.
Roland Barthes quotes: Don't bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don't "purify" it. Don't bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don't "purify" it.
Roland Barthes quotes: What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
Roland Barthes quotes: All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern. All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.
Roland Barthes quotes: Literature is the question minus the answer. Literature is the question minus the answer.
Roland Barthes quotes: I have a disease; I see language. I have a disease; I see language.
Roland Barthes quotes: Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering. Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.
Roland Barthes quotes: Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle. Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
Roland Barthes quotes: Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am. Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
Roland Barthes quotes: Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse? Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
Roland Barthes quotes: ...language is never innocent. ...language is never innocent.
Roland Barthes quotes: Engulfment is a moment of hypnosis. Engulfment is a moment of hypnosis.
Roland Barthes quotes: Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die. Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.
Roland Barthes quotes: Why is it better to last than to burn? Why is it better to last than to burn?
Roland Barthes quotes: The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers. The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
Roland Barthes quotes: What love lays bare in me is energy. What love lays bare in me is energy.
Roland Barthes quotes: As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania. As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.
Roland Barthes quotes: Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth. Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.
Roland Barthes quotes: I am either lacerated or ill at ease and occasionally subject to gusts of life. I am either lacerated or ill at ease and occasionally subject to gusts of life.
Roland Barthes quotes: I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
Roland Barthes quotes: How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond? How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
Roland Barthes quotes: The photographic image ... is a message without a code. The photographic image ... is a message without a code.
Roland Barthes quotes: Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech. Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
Roland Barthes quotes: Where you are tender, you speak your plural. Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
Roland Barthes quotes: When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead. When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
Roland Barthes quotes: A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see. A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
Roland Barthes quotes: He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life. He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
Roland Barthes quotes: ... the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life. ... the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
Roland Barthes quotes: The gift is contact, sensuality: you will be touching what I have touched, a third skin unites us. The gift is contact, sensuality: you will be touching what I have touched, a third skin unites us.
Roland Barthes quotes: It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
Roland Barthes quotes: The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas - for my body does not have the same ideas as I do. The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas - for my body does not have the same ideas as I do.
Roland Barthes quotes: We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us. We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.
Roland Barthes quotes: Like a kind of melancholy mirage, the other withdraws into infinity and I wear myself out trying to get there. Like a kind of melancholy mirage, the other withdraws into infinity and I wear myself out trying to get there.

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