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Famous Roland Barthes Quotes
“Every exploration is an appropriation.”
“Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.”
“It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel”
“A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.”
“The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
“What love lays bare in me is energy.”
“I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.”
“We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.”
“Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.”
“I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.”
“Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.”