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Roland Barthes Quotes on Truth

Roland Barthes was a French literary theorist, semiotician, and essayist. This page collects quotes attributed to Roland Barthes on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Roland Barthes:

    “The death of the author is the birth of the reader.”

  • Attributed to Roland Barthes:

    “Literature is the question minus the answer.”

  • Attributed to Roland Barthes:

    “The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centers of culture.”

  • Attributed to Roland Barthes:

    “I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire.”