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Roland Barthes Quotes: The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
         

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.


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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.

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.



...language is never innocent.

...language is never innocent.



Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.



I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.



The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.



Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.



To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.



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

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



The photographic image... is a message without a code.

The photographic image... is a message without a code.



If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.





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And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

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If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.



The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

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I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.

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Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used.

Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used.




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