“Justice is always ready to lend you a spare brain in order to condemn you without a second thought” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples. — Roland Barthes 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
“In the sentence “She’s no longer suffering,” to what, to whom does “she” refer? What does that present tense mean?” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? What "grace" might… — Roland Barthes Biography Copy Share Image
Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
L'amoureux qui n'oublie pas quelquefois meurt par exce' s, fatigue et tension de me moire (tel Werther). The lover who does not… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically (since people say: Work, amuse yourself, see friends) it’s when we’re busy, distracted, sought out, exteriorized, that we suffer most. Inwardness,… — Roland Barthes Grief and loss Copy Share Image
“In order to satisfy this great oneiric function, which makes it not a kind of total monument, the [Eiffel] Tower must escape… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a… — Roland Barthes Fashion Copy Share Image
As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“To try to write love is to confront the muck of language; that region of hysteria where language is both too much… — Roland Barthes Love Copy Share Image
I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the… — Roland Barthes Desire Copy Share Image
“Maman’s death: perhaps it is the one thing in my life that I have not responded to neurotically. My grief has not… — Roland Barthes Death Copy Share Image
Contemporary poetry ... tries to transform the sign back into meaning: its ideal, ultimately, would be to reach not the meaning of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“To read is to struggle to name, to subject the sentences of a text to a semantic transformation. This transformation is erratic;… — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and… — Roland Barthes Class Copy Share Image
“I experience reality as a system of power. Coluche, the restaurant, the painter, Rome on a holiday, everything imposes on me its… — Roland Barthes Being Copy Share Image
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short… — Roland Barthes 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
The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute… — Roland Barthes Cycles Copy Share Image
Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for… — Roland Barthes Appropriation Copy Share Image
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech. — Roland Barthes Communication Copy Share Image
“Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with… — Roland Barthes Author Copy Share Image
“Now take all the delights of the earth, melt them into one single delight, and cast it entire into a single man… — Roland Barthes Delight Copy Share Image
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same… — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living… — Roland Barthes Cameras Copy Share Image
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute… — Roland Barthes Art Copy Share Image
“In this manner , we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision. — Roland Barthes Age Copy Share Image
When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move;… — Roland Barthes Butterfly Copy Share Image
“To whom can I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“We know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader must be… — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or… — Roland Barthes Desire Copy Share Image
Rarely do outside of school remedies work their way into the fabric of the schools or into the teachers lives, and more… — Roland Barthes Classroom Copy Share Image
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