Quote by Roland Barthes
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that

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. – Roland Barthes

Other quotes by Roland Barthes

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. – Roland Barthes

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Automobiles
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! – Roland Barthes

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Interviews
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Books
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Joseph Brodsky

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Books

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. – James Bryce

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Books

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. – Jessamyn West

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Books

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires. – Plato

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You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie. – Georg Buchner

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Women

This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Reality

Truth is a great flirt. – Franz Liszt

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Truth

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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