It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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 am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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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.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? -This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.
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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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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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