Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere. — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
“Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.” — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse? — Roland Barthes Body Copy Share Image
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes Alienation Copy Share Image
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. — Roland Barthes Destruction Copy Share Image
He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is… — Roland Barthes Death Copy Share Image
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“[T]he more technology develops the diffusion of information (and notably of images), the more it provides the means of masking the constructed… — Roland Barthes Technology Copy Share Image
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival. — Roland Barthes Absence Copy Share Image
“(Nije li najbolnija točka tog žalovanja u tome što moram izgubiti jedan jezik - ljubavni jezik? Svršeno je s onim 'Volim te.')” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“This is why myth is experienced as innocent speech: not because its intentions are hidden—if they were hidden, they could not be… — Roland Barthes Communication Copy Share Image
Le toucher est le plus de mystificateur de tous les sens, a' la diffe rence de la vue, qui est le plus… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Another kind of joy, more sober because more responsible, is mine today as well: that of entry into a place that we… — Roland Barthes Honor Copy Share Image
“Mourning. At the death of the loved being, acute phase of narcissism: one emerges from sickness, from servitude. Then, gradually, freedom takes… — Roland Barthes Death Copy Share Image
Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“There is an age at which we teach what we know. Then comes another age at which we teach what we do… — Roland Barthes Change Copy Share Image
I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“The text, in its mass, is comparable to a sky, at once flat and smooth, deep, without edges and without landmarks; like… — Roland Barthes Poetry Copy Share Image
It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“The Tower is not a sacred monument, and no taboo can forbid a commonplace life to develop there, but there can be… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Werther identifies himself with the madman, with the footman. As a reader, I can identify myself with Werther. Historically, thousands of subjects… — Roland Barthes Books Copy Share Image
“What is the use of composing if it is to confine the product within the precinct of the concert or the solitude… — Roland Barthes Art Copy Share Image
“I imagine that the essential gesture of the Operator is to surprise something or someone (through the little hole in the camera),… — Roland Barthes Photography Copy Share Image
“Another unary photograph is the pornographic photograph (I am not saying the erotic photograph: the erotic is a pornographic that has been… — Roland Barthes Erotic Copy Share Image
“You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness;… — Roland Barthes Affirmation Copy Share Image
“We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the community… — Roland Barthes Morbidity Copy Share Image
“Cinema captures the sound of speech close up and makes us hear in their materiality, their sensuality, the breath, the gutturals, the… — Roland Barthes Cinema Copy Share Image
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