Quotes by Barthes, Roland

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

The New is not a fashion, it is a value. >>

To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) i >>

Quotations about Language

No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead >>

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both >>

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the >>

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.

Barthes, Roland