Quotes by Roland Barthes

New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices,...

#Cities

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if...

#Language

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is...

#Language

Literature is the question minus the answer.

#Literature

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

#Literature

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress,...

#Pleasure