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

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To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not--this is the beginning of writing.

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