10 inspirational quotes by roland barthes
- Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
- I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
- 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 it better to last than to burn?
- What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
- The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
- This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
- To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, “age-old pastime of humanity”.
- As a language, Garbo’s singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.
- All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
- Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
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