Quotes by Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

…language is never innocent.

Innocent

Language

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…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.

Book

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…what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip in again. Which has nothing to do with the deep laceration the text of bliss inflicts upon language itself, and not upon the simple temporality of its reading.

Looks

Reading

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[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of mine: for this ‘me’ which like knowledge, which nourishes a kind of amorous preference for it. In the same way, I like certain biographical features which, in a writer’s life, delight me as much as certain photographs; I have called these features ‘biographemes’; Photography has the same relation to History that the biographeme has to biography.

Biographies

Delight

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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.

Emotion

Light

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A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.

Intellectual

Memories

Photography

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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

Invisible

Photograph

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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.

Description

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All of a sudden it didn’t bother me not being modern.

Bother

Modern

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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.

School

Song

Sports

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