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Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.
Roland Barthes
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Roland Barthes
Age: 64 †
Born: 1915
Born: November 12
Died: 1980
Died: March 25
Diarist
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Literary Critic
Literary Scholar
Literary Theorist
Mythographer
Non-Fiction Writer
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Screenwriter
Roland Gérard Barthes
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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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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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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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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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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.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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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.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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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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Le langage est une peau: je frotte mon langage contre l'autre. Language is a skin I rub my language against another language.
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I have not a desire but a need for solitude.
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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!
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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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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The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder. The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing.
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Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly.
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