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Other Quotes by Roland Barthes
- Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the…
- 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…
- The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other…
- I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my…
- The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for…
- To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because…
- I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder:…
- The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very…
- Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who…
- As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my…
- To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to…
- I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
- Inexpressible Love: To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause…
- 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…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour