Roland Barthes Quotes

Roland Barthes
French Critic
Born: Nov 12, 1915
Died: Mar 26, 1980
Always Image Itself Language Literature Which
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. Roland Barthes
Day Society Alienation Way One-Way Only Only One Way Retreat Left Escape Present
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. Roland Barthes
Passion Itself Wants Public Image
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. Roland Barthes
Saying Worth Trouble Says Must Only Without Understood Prove Cannot Literature Which Even
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. Roland Barthes
Man Block Itself Offers Creates Skyscraper Street
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! Roland Barthes
Great Ending Great Deal Trouble Politician Would Would-Be Entire He Takes Clearly Policy Deal His Short Stopped Being Sentence Imagine
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. Roland Barthes
Lie Confession Myth Neither Nor
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see. Roland Barthes
Photograph See Invisible Always
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
Truth Time Live Claim My Time Well Make Condition Contradiction May Which Full Sarcasm
The New is not a fashion, it is a value. Roland Barthes
Fashion Value New
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. Roland Barthes
Blame Guilt Power Recipient Call Discourse Any Hence
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. Roland Barthes
Knowledge World Through Mythology Blissfully Reduced Regained Einstein Formula Image
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. Roland Barthes
Love Love Is Try Language Too Much Too Both Write Excessive Hysteria Impoverished Where Region Little Confront Much

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