Above all, do not attempt to be exhaustive. - Roland Barthes
I have a disease; I see language. - Roland Barthes
To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...? - Roland Barthes
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
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. - Roland Barthes
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering. - Roland Barthes
As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania. - Roland Barthes