Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is. — Roland Barthes Inspirational Copy Share Image
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. — Roland Barthes Confession Copy Share Image
“Isolation and competition are inhospitable to learning.” — Roland Barthes Competition Copy Share Image
Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth. — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body? — Roland Barthes Anthem Copy Share Image
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of… — Roland Barthes Contradiction Copy Share Image
“The (i)studium(i) is ultimately always coded, the (i)punctum is not)...” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“—You have never known a Woman’s body! —I have known the body of my mother, sick and then dying.” — Roland Barthes Death Copy Share Image
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all… — Roland Barthes Classification Copy Share Image
Le langage est une peau: je frotte mon langage contre l'autre. Language is a skin; I rub my language against another language. — Roland Barthes Language Copy Share Image
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially. — Roland Barthes Infinity Copy Share Image
Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without… — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more… — Roland Barthes Amorous Copy Share Image
Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights:… — Roland Barthes Drama Copy Share Image
“Disappointment of various places and trips. Not really comfortable anywhere. Very soon, this cry: I want to go back! (but where? since… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of… — Roland Barthes Architecture Copy Share Image
I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from… — Roland Barthes Advent Copy Share Image
“Po mome ukusu, ništa nije indiskretnije od posmatranja nekog dok piše: još je indiskretnije videti nekog da čita jedva primetno mičući usnama.… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Suffering is a form of egoism. I speak only of myself. I am not talking about her, saying what she was, making… — Roland Barthes Egoism Copy Share Image
“(yesterday) From the terrace of the Flore, I see a woman sitting on the windowsill of the bookstore La Hune; she is… — Roland Barthes Cocktail Copy Share Image
“Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of… — Roland Barthes Grief Copy Share Image
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an… — Roland Barthes Art Copy Share Image
...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon… — Roland Barthes Bliss Copy Share Image
“Powerless to utter itself, powerless to speak, love nonetheless wants to proclaim itself, to exclaim, to write itself everywhere: all’acqua, all’ombra, ai… — Roland Barthes Love Copy Share Image
“How to repulse a demon (an old problem)? The demons, especially if they are demons of language (and what else could they… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“So long as I perceive the world as hostile, I remain linked to it: *I am not crazy*. But sometimes, once my… — Roland Barthes Art Copy Share Image
“I call the discourse of power any discourse which engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. Some expect of us as intellectuals… — Roland Barthes Discourse Copy Share Image
“A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual… — Roland Barthes History Copy Share Image
“…This singular reversal may perhaps proceed from the fact that for us the “subject” (since Christianity) is the one who suffers: where… — Roland Barthes Christianity 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
“Let us suppose that I have wept, on account of some incident of which the other has not even become aware (to… — Roland Barthes Stoicism Copy Share Image
