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Only Quotes by Roland Barthes
- There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
- Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth…
- Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt…
- Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament…
- One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is…
- 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:…
- 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…
- But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you…
- What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
- When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that…
- Henceforth I would have to cosent to combine two voices: the voice of banality (to say what everyone sees and knows) and the voice of…
- I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
- Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt…
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- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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