"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates……" — Roland Barthes
"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."
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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 Block Quotes
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
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The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
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By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time.…
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My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to…
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it…
— Erma Bombeck
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A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block…
— Hal Borland
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I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this…
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You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have…
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My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million…
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I've never had writer's block.
— David Byrne
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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
— John Calvin
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