“Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order.” — Roland Barthes Distorting Copy Share Image
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. — Roland Barthes Birth Copy Share Image
“The measurement of mourning: eighteen months for mourning a father, a mother.” — Roland Barthes Father Copy Share Image
When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality. — Roland Barthes Character Copy Share Image
“As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.” — Roland Barthes Death Copy Share Image
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more… — Roland Barthes Amorous Copy Share Image
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is… — Roland Barthes Death Copy Share Image
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival. — Roland Barthes Absence Copy Share Image
“[T]he more technology develops the diffusion of information (and notably of images), the more it provides the means of masking the constructed… — Roland Barthes Technology Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, desire is always marketable: we don’t do anything but sell, buy, exchange desires. . . . And I… — Roland Barthes Desire Copy Share Image
“A cold winter night. I'm warm enough, yet I'm alone. And I realize that I'll 'have' to get used to existing quite… — Roland Barthes Death Copy Share Image
I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“The text, in its mass, is comparable to a sky, at once flat and smooth, deep, without edges and without landmarks; like… — Roland Barthes Poetry Copy Share Image
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same… — Roland Barthes Advertising Copy Share Image
Take the gesture, the action of writing. I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments. I often switch from one pen… — Roland Barthes Action Copy Share Image
As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“To visit the Tower, then, is to enter into contact not with a historical Sacred, as is the case for the majority… — Roland Barthes Monuments Copy Share Image
To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“There is a time when death is an event, an ad-venture, and as such mobilizes, interests, activates, tetanizes. And then one day… — Roland Barthes Death Copy Share Image
“The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being… — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates,… — Roland Barthes Advent Copy Share Image
“Gaudium is what I dream of: to enjoy a lifelong pleasure. But being unable to accede to Gaudium, from which I am… — Roland Barthes Dreams Copy Share Image
“Gossip reduces the other to he/she, and this reduction is intolerable to me. For me the other is neither he nor she;… — Roland Barthes Love Copy Share Image
“In the letters he sends to his friend, Werther recounts both the events of his life and the effects of his passion;… — Roland Barthes Bad mood Copy Share Image
“[Emilio’s dinner with FM Banier] Gradually I abandon the conversation (suffering because the others might suppose I am doing so for reasons… — Roland Barthes Communication Copy Share Image
“My anxieties as to behavior are futile, ever more so, to infinity. If the other, incidentally or negligently, gives the telephone number… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“In the multiplicity of writing, everything is to be disentangled, nothing deciphered; the structure can be followed, 'run' (like the thread of… — Roland Barthes Writing Copy Share Image
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