"The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I……" — Roland Barthes
"The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits."
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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 Fatal Quotes
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that…
— Allan Bloom
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been…
— David Brin
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is…
— Frederick Buechner
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
— Edmund Burke
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
— Samuel Butler
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Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.
— Cher
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims…
— Agatha Christie
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
— Winston Churchill
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Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment…
— George F. Kennan
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I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
— Camille Desmoulins
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Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free…
— Thornton Wilder
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