"…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life." — Roland Barthes

"…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life."

— 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 Book Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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