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Same Quotes by Roland Barthes
- All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the…
- To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
- Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
- A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes…
- 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…
- Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? —This isn’t the same languor: there are two…
- It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart…
- The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
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