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Roland Barthes Inspirational Quotes (94)

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Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.
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We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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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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Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me: and not only because it says something which manages to touch my desire, but because of its syntactical turn (framing), which will inhabit me like a memory.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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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.
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I think that 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.
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The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other.
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Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative lead back to Oedipus? Isn't storytelling always a way of searching for one's origin, speaking one's conflicts with the Law, entering into the dialectic of tenderness and hatred?
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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.
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I have not a desire but a need for solitude.
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
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Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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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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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
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I encounter millions of bodies in my life of these millions, I may desire some hundreds but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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