"Literature is that which he can not read……" — Roland Barthes
"Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth."
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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 Choke Quotes
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
— Alec Baldwin
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I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the…
— Julie Burchill
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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard…
— Maya Angelou
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If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well.…
— Eddie Izzard
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That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible…
— Learned Hand
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.
— Lee Trevino
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He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches…
— Andrew Jackson Downing
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
— Lucretius
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If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our…
— Albert Einstein
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing…
— Ben Jonson
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