Quote by Roland Barthes Download Open image ““The text you write must prove to me that it desires me.”” — Roland Barthes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“To write truthfully you must live, and you must feel what you are living.” — Arturo Barea Copy Share Image
“ll you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why, it will come.” — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“It is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“We want the author to give us answers when all he can do is give us desires.” — Eric Karpeles Copy Share Image
“Only in the moments of writing, do I feel like I am worthy. That I love what has been given me.” — Anna Glazebrook Copy Share Image
“But if you wish me to love you, could you but see how much I do love you, you would be proud and content.… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“To write requires passionate love of someone or something - even if it is merely self.” — Cathryn Louis Copy Share Image
“Werther identifies himself with the madman, with the footman. As a reader, I can identify myself with Werther. Historically, thousands of subjects have done… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Valéry used to speak of those people who die in an accident because they are unwilling to let go of their umbrellas; how many… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. We never encounter a state where man is separated… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“It is said that Time soothes mourning – No, Time makes nothing happen; it merely makes the emotivity of mourning pass.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“So long as I perceive the world as hostile, I remain linked to it: *I am not crazy*. But sometimes, once my bad temper… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“(Sartre) (The world is full without me, as in Nausea; the world plays at living behind a glass partition; the world is in an… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
