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Subjects Quotes by Roland Barthes
- The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
- 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…
- In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott's psychotic patient,…
- 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…
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard. — Margaret Atwood
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will… — Teresa of Avila
- The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly… — Charles Babbage
- I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope… — Charles Babbage
- If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.… — Michael D. Barnes
- I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. — Lynda Barry
- All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps,… — Mario Batali