Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Roland Barthes quotes, Roland Barthes sayings, and Roland Barthes proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.Roland Barthes
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Literature is the question minus the answer.Roland Barthes
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New York is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.Roland Barthes
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.Roland Barthes
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.Roland Barthes
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.Roland Barthes
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That ambiguous area of culture where something unfailingly political, though separate from the political choices of the day, infiltrates judgment and language.Roland Barthes
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The photographic image is a message without a code.Roland Barthes
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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.Roland Barthes
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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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In the hierarchy of the major poetic substances, it [plastic] figures as a disgraced material, lost between the effusiveness of rubber and the flat hardness of metal. Roland Barthes
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.Roland Barthes
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.Roland Barthes
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To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.Roland Barthes
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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.Roland Barthes
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.Roland Barthes
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.Roland Barthes
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.Roland Barthes
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To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.Roland Barthes
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Such is life, falling over seven times and getting up eight.Roland Barthes
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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.Roland Barthes