Roland Barthes Quotes

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I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals. - Roland Barthes quote.
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals.
— Roland Barthes Mythologies

cars

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport.  Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle. - Roland Barthes quote.
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport.  Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle.
— Roland Barthes Mythologies

wrestling

To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark. - Roland Barthes quote.
To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.
— Roland Barthes

sports

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. - Roland Barthes quote.
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.
— Roland Barthes A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments

language

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household entertainment it has become—what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle. - Roland Barthes quote.
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household entertainment it has become—what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
— Roland Barthes The Art of the Personal Essay

television

What do things signify, what does the world signify?  All literature is this question, but we must immediately add, for this is what constitutes its specialty, literature is this question minus its answer. - Roland Barthes quote.
What do things signify, what does the world signify?  All literature is this question, but we must immediately add, for this is what constitutes its specialty, literature is this question minus its answer.
— Roland Barthes Critical Essays

literature