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 doesn't wait; 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 to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense. - Roland Barthes
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
- Roland Barthes
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and th… - Roland Barthes
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and th…
The author enters into his own death, writing begins. - Roland Barthes
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
Every photograph is a certificate of presence. - Roland Barthes
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. - Roland Barthes
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
Literature is the question minus the answer. - Roland Barthes
Literature is the question minus the answer.
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond? - Roland Barthes
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power. - Roland Barthes
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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 t… - 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 t…
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