"Every photograph is a certificate of presence." — Roland Barthes
"Every photograph is a certificate of presence."
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Roland Barthes
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122 Quotes by Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes has 122 quotes on this site.
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget…
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been…
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of…
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but…
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and…
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the…
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an…
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious…
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More Certificate Quotes
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My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Merely presenting a driver's license or other document based on a birth certificate is not enough for an accurate verification.…
— Bob Dole
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I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you,…
— George Carlin
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You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and…
— Edwidge Danticat
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Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his…
— Erma Bombeck
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I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be…
— George Wald
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Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on…
— Juan Manuel Santos
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Today, possible presidential candidate Donald Trump released his birth certificate. It lists his eyes as blue and his hair as…
— Conan O'Brien
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I have people that have been studying [Obama's birth certificate] and they cannot believe what they're finding... I would like…
— Donald Trump
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Mitt Romney comes from a Mormon background. I don't know how many wives he has. I'm not saying that I…
— Bill Maher
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I want to just take a moment to thank the Teabaggers. Thank you so much for helping us pass health…
— Bill Maher
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