Quotes Tagged With :barthes

I experience reality as a system of power. Coluche, the restaurant, the painter, Rome on a holiday, everything....

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

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts....

Another unary photograph is the pornographic photograph (I am not saying the erotic photograph: the erotic....

If Barthes, along with Bachelard, is one of those who have done most to enrich criticism during the last....

Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.