Roland Barthes

“As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.”

“Boredom is not far from bliss: it is bliss seen from the shores of pleasure.”

“To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.”

“The photographic image... is a message without a code.”

“What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.”

“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.”