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Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

Birthname

Birthday November 12, 1915

Birthplace Cherbourg-Octeville, France

Death March 26, 1980

Manner of Death Accident

Educated At University Of Paris

Nationality France

Occupations Professor, Linguist, Non-fiction Writer, Diarist, Semiologist

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...He is in love: he creates meaning, always and everywhere, out of nothing...

— Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Love Inspired by Love inspiration motivation

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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

Language Words Desire Passion

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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

Authority Authorship Death of The Author Infinity Joyful Complexity Ownership Control

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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

Love Attraction Encounter Life

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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

Love Waiting For Love love & patience love & relationship love & life

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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

Author-God Copyright Originality Ownership Remix Singular Meaning Theology Word of God

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