A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve. — Roland Barthes Emotion Copy Share Image
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience. — Roland Barthes Architecture Copy Share Image
Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death. — Roland Barthes Death Copy Share Image
Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am. — Roland Barthes 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
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
“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 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
“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
Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it's the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than… — Roland Barthes Climate Copy Share Image
If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People… — Roland Barthes God Copy Share Image
The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not… — Roland Barthes Art Copy Share Image
“To be engulfed: outburst of annihilation which affects the amorous subject in despair or fulfillment. At its best, when it’s fulfillment, it’s… — Roland Barthes Death 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
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
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
“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
For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere;… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning… — Roland Barthes Language 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
“Valéry used to speak of those people who die in an accident because they are unwilling to let go of their umbrellas;… — Roland Barthes Happiness Copy Share Image
“Hence the detail which interests me is not, or at least is not strictly intentional, and probably must not be so; it… — Roland Barthes Art Copy Share Image
“13084 Tonight I came back to the hotel alone; the other has decided to return later on. The anxieties are already here,… — Roland Barthes Anxieties Copy Share Image
“Due allowance being made for the sounds of the language, writing aloud is not phonological but phonetic; its aim is not the… — Roland Barthes Communication Copy Share Image
“We were friends and have become estranged. But this was right, and we do not want to conceal and obscure it from… — Roland Barthes Estranged Copy Share Image
But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like?… — Roland Barthes Body 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 Discourse Copy Share Image
“As Narrative (Novel, Passion), love is a story which is accomplished, in the sacred sense of the word: it is a program… — Roland Barthes Amorous Copy Share Image
Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure)… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
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