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Roland Barthes Quotes & Sayings

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31 entries tagged including 12 subtopics.
Last updated Jun 2023

Roland Barthes Topics

Passion
Love
Books
Drink
Pleasure
Mythology
Sarcasm
Cities
Language
Literature
Wrestling

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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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Wrestling quotes

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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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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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Literature is the question minus the answer.

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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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Language quotes

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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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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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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

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To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.

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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

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The photographic image... is a message without a code.

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The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

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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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Literature is the question minus the answer.

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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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