338 Quotes by Roland Barthes

«Ce que cache mon langage, mon corps le dit» Roland Barthes (Fragments d’un discours amoureux)

The picturesque is found any time the ground is uneven.

I want to be both pathetic and admirable, I want to be at the same time a child and an adult. Thereby I gamble, I take a risk: for it is always possible that the other will simply ask no question whatever about these unaccustomed glasses; that the other will see, in the fact, no sign.

The text does not gloss the images,which do not illustrate the text.

Po mome ukusu, ništa nije indiskretnije od posmatranja nekog dok piše: još je indiskretnije videti nekog da čita jedva primetno mičući usnama. Markizu de Sadu je nedostajao taj prizor (za njega isuviše blag): uhvatiti eksplozije na usnama onog koji poluglasno čita neki tekst u procesu artikulisanja. Ništa od te minule erotike više nije moguće: danas su pisanje i čitanje skrovite prakse.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.

Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.