Roland Barthes quotes - page 2

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth. (Roland Barthes)
Every exploration is an appropriation. View quote
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Encratic language (the language produced and spread under the protection of power) is statutorily a language of repetition; all official institutions of language are repeating machines: schools, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words. View quote
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Myth is depoliticized speech. View quote
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What love lays bare in me is energy. View quote
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mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am. View quote
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I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one. View quote
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To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...? View quote
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... language is never innocent. View quote
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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially. View quote
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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? (Roland Barthes)
When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies. View quote
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This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival. View quote
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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. View quote
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. View quote
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. View quote
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The New is not a fashion, it is a value. View quote
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The photographic image... is a message without a code. View quote
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For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture. View quote
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. View quote
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. (Roland Barthes)
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. View quote
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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 pretty fun. View quote
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The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition: content, ideological schema, the blurring of contradictions-these are repeated, but the superficial forms are varied: always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. View quote
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To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality. View quote
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