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 that all classifications are oppressive.Roland Barthes
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The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
Roland Barthes
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Roland Barthes
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
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 trembles with desire.
Roland Barthes
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
Roland Barthes
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
Roland Barthes
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