"Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot……" — Roland Barthes

"Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am."

— 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 Deign Quotes

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I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous… — Corey Taylor
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark… — Samuel Johnson
Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called… — Michelle Obama
I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to… — Saint Patrick
Follow what you love!... Don't deign to ask what they are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside.… — Georgie Anne Geyer
My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a… — Jared Harris
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. — Horace
A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife. — Frederic Morton
I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing. — Arnold Palmer
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing… — Alexandre Dumas
Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an… — John Green

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