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Roland Barthes Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“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 trembles with desire.”
— Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Tagged: Language, Words, Desire, Passion
“...He is in love: he creates meaning, always and everywhere, out of nothing...”
— Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Tagged: Love, Inspired by Love, inspiration, motivation
“Once the Author is gone, the claim to 'decipher' a text becomes quite useless. To give an Author to a text is to impose upon that text a stop clause, to furnish it with a final signification, to close the writing.”
— Roland Barthes, constantvzw.org
Tagged: Authority, Authorship, Death of The Author, Infinity, Joyful Complexity, Ownership, Control
“I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.”
— Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Tagged: Love, Attraction, Encounter, Life
“Am I in love?—yes,since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
— Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Tagged: Love, Waiting For Love, love & patience, love & relationship, love & life
“We know that a text does not consist of a line of words, releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God), but is a space of many dimensions, in which are wedded and contested various kinds of writing, no one of which is original: the text is a tissue of citations, resulting from the thousand sources of culture.”
— Roland Barthes, constantvzw.org
Tagged: Author-God, Copyright, Originality, Ownership, Remix, Singular Meaning, Theology, Word of God
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