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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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To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
— Thomas Hobbes
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A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to…
— Albert Schweitzer
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For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere;…
— Roland Barthes
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To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
— Patrick Ness
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If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must…
— Thomas Mann
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The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say.…
— Patrick Ness
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