“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 passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don’t want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.”
Roland Barthes
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“What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.”
Roland Barthes
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“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.”
Roland Barthes
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“I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.”
Roland Barthes
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“The photographic image… is a message without a code.”
Roland Barthes
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“The New is not a fashion, it is a value.”
Roland Barthes
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“Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.”
Roland Barthes
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“The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.”
Roland Barthes
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“There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.”
Roland Barthes
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