“Isolation and competition are inhospitable to learning.” — Roland Barthes Competition Copy Share Image
To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. — Roland Barthes Desire Copy Share Image
“I am either lacerated or ill at ease and occasionally subject to gusts of life” — Roland Barthes Grief Copy Share Image
“Everyone is “extremely nice”—and yet I feel entirely alone. (“Abandonitis”).” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering. — Roland Barthes Grief Copy Share Image
“To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".” — Roland Barthes Nature of man Copy Share Image
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. — Roland Barthes 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
“Painting can feign reality without having seen it. Discourse combines signs which have referents, of course, but these referents can be and… — Roland Barthes Artist Copy Share Image
“Like man himself, who is the only one not to know his own glance, the [Eiffel] Tower is the only blind point… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“To instil into the Established Order the complacent portrayal of its drawbacks has nowadays become a paradoxical but incontrovertible means of exalting… — Roland Barthes Paradoxical Copy Share Image
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science… — Roland Barthes Bliss Copy Share Image
The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject),… — Roland Barthes Children Copy Share Image
Henceforth I would have to cosent to combine two voices: the voice of banality (to say what everyone sees and knows) and… — Roland Barthes 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
“I waver—in the dark—between the observation (but is it entirely accurate?) that I’m unhappy only by moments, by jerks and surges, sporadically,… — Roland Barthes Death Copy Share Image
For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic… — Roland Barthes Bells Copy Share Image
“The modern writer (scriptor) is born simultaneously with his text; he is in no way supplied with a being which precedes or… — Roland Barthes Postmodernism Copy Share Image
“Charlus takes the narrator's chin and slides his magnetized fingers up to the ears "like a barber's fingers." This trivial gesture, which… — Roland Barthes Gesture Copy Share Image
“Cinema captures the sound of speech close up and makes us hear in their materiality, their sensuality, the breath, the gutturals, the… — Roland Barthes Cinema Copy Share Image
“We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the community… — Roland Barthes Morbidity Copy Share Image
“You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness;… — Roland Barthes Affirmation Copy Share Image
“What is the use of composing if it is to confine the product within the precinct of the concert or the solitude… — Roland Barthes Art Copy Share Image
“Werther identifies himself with the madman, with the footman. As a reader, I can identify myself with Werther. Historically, thousands of subjects… — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
“I imagine that the essential gesture of the Operator is to surprise something or someone (through the little hole in the camera),… — Roland Barthes Photography Copy Share Image
“Another unary photograph is the pornographic photograph (I am not saying the erotic photograph: the erotic is a pornographic that has been… — Roland Barthes Erotic Copy Share Image
The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits. — Roland Barthes Identity Copy Share Image
“Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence.” — Roland Barthes Discourse Copy Share Image
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