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Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a word: Text (it is wrong to say that the notion of 'text' repeats the notion of 'literature': literature represents a finite world, the text figures the infinite of language).

Roland Barthes's Popular Quotes

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 th…

- Roland Barthes

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

- Roland Barthes

Every photograph is a certificate of presence.

- Roland Barthes

The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

- Roland Barthes

Literature is the question minus the answer.

- 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 t…

- Roland Barthes

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

- Roland Barthes

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

- Roland Barthes

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.

- Roland Barthes