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Time Quotes by Roland Barthes
- What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
- 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…
- The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for…
- 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…
- One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized then, with an…
- 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 an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very…
- 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…
- I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing…
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- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani