"Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions" — Roland Barthes
"Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions"
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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 Construction Quotes
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
— Francis Bacon
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When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise…
— Ritchie Blackmore
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It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part…
— Russell Brand
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the…
— Edmund Burke
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff.…
— Adam Carolla
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Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction…
— Adrienne Clarkson
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It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will…
— David Allan Coe
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All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to…
— Tadao Ando
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This is a win for the 4-year-olds who require pre-K, the low-wealth counties that need assistance with school construction and…
— Dominique Easley
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic…
— Richard Courant
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His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of…
— Nikki Giovanni
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It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to…
— Paulo Freire
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