It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
ROLAND BARTHESOne must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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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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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Language is never innocent.
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.
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