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I have not a desire but a need for solitude (Roland Barthes Quotes)
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion (Roland Barthes Quotes)
The photographic image... is a message without a code (Roland Barthes Quotes)
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental (Roland Barthes Quotes)
Literature is the question minus the answer (Roland Barthes Quotes)
The author enters into his own death, writing begins (Roland Barthes Quotes)
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see (Roland Barthes Quotes)
Painting can feign reality without having seen it (Roland Barthes Quotes)
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual (Roland Barthes Quotes)
Where you are tender, you speak your plural (Roland Barthes Quotes)
A picture is never anything but its own plural description (Roland Barthes Quotes)
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel (Roland Barthes Quotes)
Flaubert had infinite correction to perform (Roland Barthes Quotes)
Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth (Roland Barthes Quotes)
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse? (Roland Barthes Quotes)
Why is it better to last than to burn? (Roland Barthes Quotes)
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture (Roland Barthes Quotes)
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is (Roland Barthes Quotes)
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it (Roland Barthes Quotes)
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 Quotes)
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology (Roland Barthes Quotes)
There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one’s good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment (Roland Barthes Quotes)
... what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip in again. Which has nothing to do with the deep laceration the text of bliss inflicts upon language itself, and not upon the simple temporality of its reading (Roland Barthes Quotes)
Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am (Roland Barthes Quotes)
As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common (Roland Barthes Quotes)
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech (Roland Barthes Quotes)
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... Always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning (Roland Barthes Quotes)
Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things (Roland Barthes Quotes)
Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die (Roland Barthes Quotes)
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 (Roland Barthes Quotes)