Quote by Roland Barthes
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. - Rola

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. – Roland Barthes

Other quotes by Roland Barthes

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. – Roland Barthes

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power
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure. – Roland Barthes

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Pleasure
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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

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Books
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Other Quotes from
Myths, Mythology
category

Myths which are believed in tend to become true. – George Orwell

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. – Irwin Edman

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in mens minds without their being aware of the fact. – Claude Levi-Strauss

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is. – Eugene Ionesco

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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Star Wars is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. Its what they want. – George Lucas

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inspirational

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you. – Billy Graham

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I support legal immigration. – Heather Wilson

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legal