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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.
Roland Barthes
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Roland Barthes
Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.
Roland Barthes
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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 that all classifications are oppressive.
Roland Barthes
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
Roland Barthes
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Roland Barthes
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
Roland Barthes
The Text is not a definitive object.
Roland Barthes
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
Roland Barthes
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
Roland Barthes
...the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
Roland Barthes
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
Roland Barthes
All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.
Roland Barthes
In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.
Roland Barthes
Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.
Roland Barthes
I make the other's absence responsible for my worldliness.
Roland Barthes
Isn't the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language - the amorous language? No more ‘I love you's.
Roland Barthes
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing., nothing but mutations.
Roland Barthes
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".
Roland Barthes
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.
Roland Barthes
I have not a desire but a need for solitude.
Roland Barthes
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