"The text you write must prove to me……" — Roland Barthes
"The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself)."
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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 Bliss Quotes
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and…
— Samuel Beckett
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Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
— Nathaniel Branden
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
— Robert Burns
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Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
— Joseph Campbell
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I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I…
— John le Carre
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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
— Deepak Chopra
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It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
— Deepak Chopra
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Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there,…
— Erich Fromm
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That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away…
— Unknown Author
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
— Edmund Spenser
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Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will…
— Swami Vivekananda
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