"Flaubert had infinite correction to perform." — Roland Barthes
"Flaubert had infinite correction to perform."
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Roland Barthes
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122 Quotes by Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes has 122 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of…
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but…
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and…
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the…
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an…
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious…
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More Correction Quotes
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say,…
— Benjamin Carson
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is…
— A. R. Ammons
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Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction,…
— Eric Milner-White
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"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too,…
— Tertullian
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The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The…
— Wilfred Trotter
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In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when…
— David Landes
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Quantum healing is healing the bodymind from a quantum level. That means from a level which is not manifest at…
— Deepak Chopra
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If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is…
— Thomas Szasz
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If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences…
— Thomas Jefferson
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For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of…
— Bruce Schneier
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