Quotes by : Roland Barthes

…This singular reversal may perhaps proceed from the fact that for us the “subject” (since Christianity)....

We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves....

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".

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

Hence the detail which interests me is not, or at least is not strictly intentional, and probably must....

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

So long as I perceive the world as hostile, I remain linked to it: *I am not crazy*. But sometimes, once....

Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds....

I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation....