"Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering."
― Roland Barthes
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"Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering."
― Roland Barthes
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"There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle.."
― Roland Barthes |
"Cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object"
― Roland Barthes |
"It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the emotion of loss"
― Roland Barthes |
"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"
― Roland Barthes
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"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
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"I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time."
― Roland Barthes
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"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."
― Roland Barthes
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"I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples."
― Roland Barthes
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"Flaubert had infinite correction to perform."
― Roland Barthes
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"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."
― Roland Barthes
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"I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness."
― Roland Barthes
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"Literature is the question minus the answer."
― Roland Barthes |
"Where you are tender, you speak your plural."
― Roland Barthes |
"In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs."
― Roland Barthes
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"Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula."
― Roland Barthes |
"Every photograph is a certificate of presence."
― Roland Barthes
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"How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?"
― Roland Barthes |
"As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound."
― Roland Barthes
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"Fashion postulates an achrony, a time which does not exist; here the past is shameful and the present is constantly eaten up by the Fashion being heralded."
― Roland Barthes
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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."
― Roland Barthes
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"Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve."
― Roland Barthes
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"It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world"
― Roland Barthes
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"Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking."
― Roland Barthes
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"The author enters into his own death, writing begins."
― Roland Barthes
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"We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense."
― Roland Barthes |
"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 |
"Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is."
― Roland Barthes |
"It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the emotion of loss.."
― Roland Barthes
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"Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision."
― Roland Barthes |
"Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things"
― Roland Barthes
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"Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body"
― Roland Barthes
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"It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel"
― Roland Barthes
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"Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience."
― Roland Barthes
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"As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event."
― Roland Barthes
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"Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them."
― Roland Barthes
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"The new is not a fashion, it is a value."
― Roland Barthes
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Nationality: French |
Born:November 12, 1915, Cherbourg- Octeville, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France
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Famous As:
Philosopher,Literary Theorist,Essayist, , Critic, and Semiotician
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