"Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning……" — Roland Barthes
"Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s."
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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 Amorous Quotes
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast…
— John Milton
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Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties
— William Shakespeare
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The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the…
— Aeschylus
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
— Lord Byron
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As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just…
— Will Cuppy
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I…
— Honore de Balzac
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I’m amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.
— Fiona Apple
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Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most…
— John Marston
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Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon the length of days as…
— Juvenal
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Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest…
— John Milton
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Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate…
— William Prynne
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Unsubstantial Death is amorous.
— William Shakespeare
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