"It must always be considered as though spoken……" — Roland Barthes

"It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel"

— Roland Barthes

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122 Quotes by Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes has 122 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget…
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been…
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both…
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of…
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but…
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and…
To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the…
Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an…
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 Character Quotes

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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition… — Aristotle
One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about… — J. J. Abrams
My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was… — Lance Armstrong
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a… — Rowan Atkinson
When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things -… — Rowan Atkinson

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