There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
ROLAND BARTHESIs not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a “weakness” or an “absurdity”: it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)
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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.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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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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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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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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He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not–this is the beginning of writing.
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Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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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 pretty fun.
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The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
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Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
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