Creative Quotations from . . .
Roland Barthes
(1915-1980) born on Nov 12
French critic. "He was known for his contributions to structural linguistics and New Criticism intellectual movement; wrote "Writing Degree Zero," 1953."
 
   
F
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula."

R
"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."
A
Literature is the question minus the answer.
N
"Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it."
K
"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Mythologies," "The Brain of Einstein," 1957."
R: ""A Lovers Discourse: Fragments," "Talking," 1977."
A: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
N: ""Deliberation," in "Tel Quel" (Paris), Winter 1979; in "Barthes: Selected Writings," 1982."
K: ""Mythologies," Preface."



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