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Me Quotes by Roland Barthes
- Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the…
- 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…
- 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:…
- I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
- 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…
- The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various…
- 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…
- It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the…
- 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;…
- The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it…
- 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…
- If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly…
- What love lays bare in me is energy.
- 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…
- Inexpressible Love: To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause…
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — 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
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale