There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. – Roland Barthes
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. – Roland Barthes
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
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