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Roland Barthes has 124 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all…
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of…
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or…
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that…
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is…
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of…
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A…
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is…
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If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is,…
— Eddie Izzard
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My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the…
— Richard Dawkins
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You've got a nice neck for choking.
— Unknown Author
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I've been on so many primetime shows that were cancelled - after one episode, after 10 episodes, after just one season. I…
— Michael Easton
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I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt…
— Vaslav Nijinsky
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In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty…
— Bartholomew Roberts
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As starving men crave a crust of bread, as choking men thirst for water, so do the righteous yearn for the Holy…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts…
— J. Frank Dobie
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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
— William E. Simon
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The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of…
— John Steinbeck
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Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.
— Robin Williams
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A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the…
— Marlene Dietrich
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