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"17 Roland Barthes Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 12 November 1915. Died: 26 March 1980 | Essayist | Philosopher | Critic | Semiotician |

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Answer Literature Minus Question
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For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

Arms Better Fine Gesture
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.

Been Eclectic Far Fun
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The photographic image... is a message without a code.

Code Image Message Photographic
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

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

Ahead Alienation Day Escape
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The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
Fashion New Value
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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.

Against Desire Fingers Had
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Any Blame Call Discourse
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Confession Lie Myth Neither
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What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Image Itself Passion Public
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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

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

Einstein Formula Image Knowledge
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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.

Claim Condition Contradiction Full
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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.

Both Confront Excessive Hysteria
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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.

Cannot Even Literature Must
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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!

Being Clearly Deal Ending
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Roland Barthes Quotes & Sayings