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“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
“The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.”
“Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.”
~ Roland Barthes
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“The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.”
“Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.”
~ Roland Barthes
( http://cocosse-journal.org )
“Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.”
“What I hide by my language, my body utters.”
“I pass lightly through the reactionary darkness.”
~ Roland Barthes
(cocosse-journal.og)
“What I hide by my language, my body utters.”
“I pass lightly through the reactionary darkness.”
~ Roland Barthes
(cocosse-journal.og)
“There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence.”
“Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order.”
“A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.”
“The author enters into his own death, writing begins.”
~ Roland Barthes
(Idem)
“Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order.”
“A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.”
“The author enters into his own death, writing begins.”
~ Roland Barthes
(Idem)
“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
(Idem)
~ Roland Barthes
(Idem)
“I have a disease; I see language.”
~ Roland Barthes
~ Roland Barthes
"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."
~ Roland Barthes
~ Roland Barthes
"Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering."
~ Roland Barthes
~ Roland Barthes
"A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve." ~ Roland Barthes
"Am I in love?...I am waiting. Sometimes...I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time...I am the one who waits."
~ Roland Barthes
~ Roland Barthes
"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive."
~ Roland Barthes
~ Roland Barthes
"Every photograph is a certificate of presence."
~ Roland Barthes
~ Roland Barthes
"The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; ... the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star."
~ Roland Barthes
~ Roland Barthes
"The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, ... The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination."
~ Roland Barthes
~ Roland Barthes
"We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense."
~ Roland Barthes
~ Roland Barthes
"How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?"
~ Roland Barthes
~ Roland Barthes
"Every exploration is an appropriation."
~ Roland Barthes
~ Roland Barthes
