Literary theory Quotes by Roland Barthes

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“The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being lost; a text's unity lies not in its origin but in its destination. Yet this destination cannot any…

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“Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.”

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“Werther identifies himself with the madman, with the footman. As a reader, I can identify myself with Werther. Historically, thousands of subjects have done so, suffering, killing themselves, dressing, perfuming themselves, writing as if they were Werther (songs, poems, candy boxes, belt buckles, fans, colognes a' la Werther). A long chain of equivalences links all the lovers in the world.…

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The Text is not a definitive object.

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“Valéry used to speak of those people who die in an accident because they are unwilling to let go of their umbrellas; how many…

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Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

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The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The…

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“A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.”

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“Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. We never encounter a state where man is separated…

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“It is said that Time soothes mourning – No, Time makes nothing happen; it merely makes the emotivity of mourning pass.”

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“So long as I perceive the world as hostile, I remain linked to it: *I am not crazy*. But sometimes, once my bad temper…

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I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived…

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“(Sartre) (The world is full without me, as in Nausea; the world plays at living behind a glass partition; the world is in an…

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“Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from…

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