Roland Barthes Quotes & Sayings

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 Wrestling quotes 
Suggest Revision: 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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Suggest Revision: Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
 
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Suggest Revision: Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
 
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Suggest Revision: Literature is the question minus the answer.
 
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Suggest Revision: Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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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Suggest Revision: 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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Suggest Revision: Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
 
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Suggest Revision: Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
 
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Suggest Revision: The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
 
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