"What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred……" — Roland Barthes
"What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially."
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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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One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner…
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved…
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I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else.…
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To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the…
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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
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Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation’s future and…
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Physically it's exhausting to cook every night. Existentially speaking, I have so much more energy having that time to myself…
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... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.
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Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think…
— Kenny Smith
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Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company…
— Susan Orlean
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You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you.…
— Jostein Gaarder
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To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of…
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