Quote by Roland Barthes
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as

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

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Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, whats left of them. – Roland Barthes

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Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local caf? to the speech at a formal dinner. – Roland Barthes

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What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words…. Be not the slave of Words… – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh, 1

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For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. – Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)

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Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp. – From a Washington Post reader submission word contest

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. – Marshall Lumsden

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