Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Roland Barthes's Popular Quotes

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

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

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

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

- 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