Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
ROLAND BARTHESWhereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or “filiation”), the Text is without a source – the “author” a mere “guest” at the reading of the Text.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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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?
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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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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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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