Today is the birthday of Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980), literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician."A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see."
- Roland Barthes
"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."
- Roland Barthes
"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."
- Roland Barthes
"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition … always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."
- Roland Barthes
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