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Love Quotes by Roland Barthes
- I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
- To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little,…
- 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…
- The photographic image... is a message without a code.
- The necessary condition for an image is sight,
- Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
- Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
- To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.
- Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
- 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…
- Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
- 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:…
- Why is it better to last than to burn?
- Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.
- A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
- Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
- ...language is never innocent.
- If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility…
- For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related…
- Every exploration is an appropriation.
- Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who…
- It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
- …the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
- All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.
- To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide