Author: Roland Barthes

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- Roland Barthes

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

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

- Roland Barthes

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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