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From Quotes by Roland Barthes
- To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.
- Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament…
- New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a…
- Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?
- The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me…
- To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because…
- The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
- I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop…
- I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder:…
- The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here;…
- As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my…
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