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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.
— Roland Barthes
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.
— Roland Barthes
The lover's discourse is usually a smooth envelope which encases the Image, a very gentle glove around the loved being.
— Roland Barthes
I can't get to know you" means "I shall never know what you really think of me." I cannot decipher you because I do not know how you decipher me.
— Roland Barthes
- You have never known a Woman's body!- I have known the body of my mother, sick and then dying. — Roland Barthes
The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
— Roland Barthes
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
— Roland Barthes
Every exploration is an appropriation.
— Roland Barthes
All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
— Roland Barthes
I have not a desire but a need for solitude.
— Roland Barthes
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
— Roland Barthes
The grimegoism (egotism)
of mourning
of suffering — Roland Barthes
I ask for nothing but to live in my suffering.
— Roland Barthes
My claim is to live to the full contradiction of my time
— Roland Barthes
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
— Roland Barthes
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
— Roland Barthes
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions— Roland Barthes
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
— Roland Barthes
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
— Roland Barthes
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".
— Roland Barthes
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
— Roland Barthes
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
— Roland Barthes
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
— Roland Barthes
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
— Roland Barthes
Isolation and competition are inhospitable to learning.
— Roland Barthes
The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
— Roland Barthes
As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
— Roland Barthes
Miseries of a birth.
— Roland Barthes
Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.
— Roland Barthes
A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
— Roland Barthes
The necessary condition for an image is sight,
— Roland Barthes
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
— Roland Barthes
As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.
— Roland Barthes
What love lays bare in me is energy.
— Roland Barthes
When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
— Roland Barthes
To eat steak rare ... represents both a nature and a morality.
— Roland Barthes
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
— Roland Barthes
I pass lightly through the reactionary darkness.
— Roland Barthes
Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?
— Roland Barthes
In this manner , we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of an empty subject.
— Roland Barthes
What I hide by my language, my body utters.
— Roland Barthes
Isn't the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language - the amorous language? No more 'I love you's.
— Roland Barthes
Any demand is frigid until desire, until neurosis forms in it.
— Roland Barthes
To see someone who does not see is the best way to be intensely aware of what he does not see.
— Roland Barthes
What would you do if you ruled the world?" The gigolo replied that he would abolish all laws. Barthes said: "Even grammar?
— Laurent Binet
I live in my suffering and that makes me happy.Anything that keeps me from living in my suffering is unbearable to me. — Roland Barthes
This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
— Roland Barthes
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
— Roland Barthes
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
— Roland Barthes
I make the other's absence responsible for my worldliness.
— Roland Barthes
Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin.
— Roland Barthes
The cultural work done in the past by gods and epic sagas is now done by laundry-detergent commercials and comic-strip character
— Roland Barthes
SuicideHow would I know I don't suffer any more, if I'm dead? — Roland Barthes
In the sentence "She's no longer suffering," to what, to whom does "she" refer? What does that present tense mean?
— Roland Barthes
Don't bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don't "purify" it.
— Roland Barthes
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
— Roland Barthes
All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.
— Roland Barthes
Above all, do not attempt to be exhaustive.
— Roland Barthes
I have a disease; I see language.
— Roland Barthes
So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.
— Johnny Rich
One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
— Roland Barthes
Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
— Roland Barthes
...language is never innocent.
— Roland Barthes
Engulfment is a moment of hypnosis.
— Roland Barthes
Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.
— Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes says, That which cannot be named is a disturbance.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Why is it better to last than to burn?
— Roland Barthes
Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.
— Johnny Rich
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition ... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
— Roland Barthes
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
— Roland Barthes
The photographic image ... is a message without a code.
— Roland Barthes
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
— Roland Barthes
Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
— Roland Barthes
The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
— Roland Barthes
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
— Roland Barthes
... the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
— Roland Barthes
The gift is contact, sensuality: you will be touching what I have touched, a third skin unites us.
— Roland Barthes
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
— Roland Barthes
The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas - for my body does not have the same ideas as I do.
— Roland Barthes
We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.
— Roland Barthes
Like a kind of melancholy mirage, the other withdraws into infinity and I wear myself out trying to get there.
— Roland Barthes
Literature is the question minus the answer.
— Roland Barthes
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
— Roland Barthes
There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence.
— Roland Barthes
