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Roland Barthes Quotes

Roland Barthes quotes

French Critic, Philosopher November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980

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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes quote: "Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of..."
Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes quote: "Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from..."
Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body? Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes quote: "The photographic image... is a message without a code."
The photographic image... is a message without a code. Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes quote: "I ask for nothing but to live in my suffering."
I ask for nothing but to live in my suffering. Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes quote: "In the sentence “She’s no longer suffering,” to what, to whom..."
In the sentence “She’s no longer suffering,” to what, to whom does “she” refer? What does that present tense mean? Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes quote: "I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness."
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness. Roland Barthes
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes quote: "The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable..."
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes quote: "Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or..."
Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it. Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes quote: "I have not a desire but a need for solitude."
I have not a desire but a need for solitude. Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes quote: "Literature is the question minus the answer."
Literature is the question minus the answer. Roland Barthes
The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can sometimes call it mild does not contradict its violence: many say that sugar is mild, but to me sugar is violent, and I call it so). Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes quote: "...language is never innocent."
...language is never innocent. Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes quote: "There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present..."
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. Roland Barthes

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