I can do everything with my language but.... : Quote by Roland Barthes

“ I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utters. I can deliberately mold my message, not my voice. By my voice, whatever it says, the other will recognize "that something is wrong with me". I am a liar (by preterition), not an actor. My body is a stubborn child, my language is a very civilized adult... ”

Roland Barthes
  • From : A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
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