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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. Roland Barthes

Man, Street, Skyscraper

The photographic image... is a message without a code. Roland Barthes

Message, Image, Without

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

Love, Language, Love Is

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

Time, Truth, Sarcasm

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

Power, Language, Forget

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! Roland Barthes

Great, Short, Ending

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see. Roland Barthes

See, Invisible, Photograph

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. Roland Barthes

Power, Blame, Guilt

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. Roland Barthes

Lie, Myth, Confession

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality. Roland Barthes

Nature, Morality, Rare

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. Roland Barthes

Culture, Meaning, News

Literature is the question minus the answer. Roland Barthes

Literature, Question, Answer

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture. Roland Barthes

Short, Theatre, Long

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun. Roland Barthes

Life, Fun, Professional

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

Day, Society, Ahead

The New is not a fashion, it is a value. Roland Barthes

Value, Fashion, New

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

Language, Words, Desire

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. Roland Barthes

Passion, Image, Wants

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. Roland Barthes

Knowledge, World, Mythology

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. Roland Barthes

Literature, Saying, Worth

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