Roland Barthes on sexuality
Roland Barthes94 quotes“It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.”
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
Roland BarthesRoland Barthes I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
Roland BarthesRoland Barthes This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
Roland BarthesRoland Barthes Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
Roland BarthesRoland Barthes The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
Roland BarthesRoland Barthes What love lays bare in me is energy.
Roland BarthesRoland Barthes A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
Roland BarthesRoland Barthes 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 BarthesRoland Barthes I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
Roland BarthesRoland Barthes I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).
Roland BarthesRoland Barthes Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language – the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.
Roland BarthesRoland Barthes Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
Roland BarthesRoland Barthes To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?
Roland BarthesRoland 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 BarthesRoland Barthes We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
Roland BarthesRoland Barthes I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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I’m gay. It’s pretty unfortunate.
Louis TomlinsonLouis Tomlinson If anti-gay stuff is always coming out of your mouth, something very gay is probably going in.
Bill MaherBill Maher What is it with conservatives? Seriously, I’m not trying to be partisan but it seems like if they’re anti-illegal alien, they have illegal aliens working for them. If they’re anti-gay, they turn out to be gay. If they’re super Christian, they’re a witch.
Bill MaherBill Maher I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.
George MichaelGeorge Michael Do girls really mature faster than boys or are you looking for a way to sexualize young girls without feeling guilty about it?
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am.
Cara DelevingneCara Delevingne I’m not trying to be, like, the bisexual, lesbian rapper. I don’t live on other people’s terms.
Azealia BanksAzealia Banks Name a sexual disease, she got it like Sam Goody.
Dr. DreDr. Dre
