As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound. — Roland Barthes Photography Copy Share Image
“Everyone is “extremely nice”—and yet I feel entirely alone. (“Abandonitis”).” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“I am either lacerated or ill at ease and occasionally subject to gusts of life” — Roland Barthes Grief Copy Share Image
The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits. — Roland Barthes Identity Copy Share Image
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".” — Roland Barthes Nature of man Copy Share Image
“What affects me most powerfully: mourning in layers—a kind of sclerosis. [Which means: no depth. Layers of surface—or rather, each layer: a… — Roland Barthes Mourning Copy Share Image
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that… — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Around 6 p.m.: the apartment is warm, clean, well-lit, pleasant. I make it that way, energetically, devotedly (enjoying it bitterly): henceforth and… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon… — Roland Barthes Absence Copy Share Image
Inexpressible Love: To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write… — Roland Barthes Inexpressible Copy Share Image
“Now take all the delights of the earth, melt them into one single delight, and cast it entire into a single man… — Roland Barthes Delight Copy Share Image
If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm… — Roland Barthes Absurdity Copy Share Image
The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. We never encounter a state where man… — Roland Barthes Language Copy Share Image
The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse)… — Roland Barthes Bizarre Copy Share Image
“What pricks me is the discovery of this equivalence. In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell… — Roland Barthes Children Copy Share Image
Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence… — Roland Barthes Desire Copy Share Image
One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with… — Roland Barthes Author Copy Share Image
“In this manner , we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same… — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute… — Roland Barthes Art Copy Share Image
Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living… — Roland Barthes Cameras Copy Share Image
When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move;… — Roland Barthes Butterfly Copy Share Image
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision. — Roland Barthes Age Copy Share Image
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or… — Roland Barthes Desire Copy Share Image
Rarely do outside of school remedies work their way into the fabric of the schools or into the teachers lives, and more… — Roland Barthes Classroom Copy Share Image
“Grim evening at Gabès (windy, black clouds, hideous bungalows, “folklore” performance in the Hotel Chems bar): I can no longer take refuge… — Roland Barthes Black clouds Copy Share Image
“To whom can I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“We know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader must be… — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Henceforth I would have to cosent to combine two voices: the voice of banality (to say what everyone sees and knows) and… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject),… — Roland Barthes Children Copy Share Image
The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute… — Roland Barthes Cycles Copy Share Image
Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for… — Roland Barthes Appropriation Copy Share Image
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