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.
ROLAND BARTHESMan does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Language is never innocent.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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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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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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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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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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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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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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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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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.
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The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
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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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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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