Best Roland Barthes Sayings
- Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere,… Abstractions
- The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire… Clearly
- 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… Another Name
- To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because… Active
- Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is. Inspirational
- Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am. Deign
- Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. Doe
- Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? —This isn’t the same languor: there are two… Absent
- Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me:… Aural
- Why is it better to last than to burn? Better
- Flaubert had infinite correction to perform. Correction
- The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. Author
- A picture is never anything but its own plural description. Description
- Painting can feign reality without having seen it. Feign
- ...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:… Abrasions
- In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott's psychotic patient,… Already Dead
- I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me. Inspirational
- The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. Disturbance
- The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. Centre
- I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop… Accept
- ...language is never innocent. Innocent
- The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various… Bliss
- One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized then, with an… Able
- But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you… Authentic
- If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility… Absurdity
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