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

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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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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. – 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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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

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

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. – Greil Marcus

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

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