“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.”
Author details
Related authors
Other Roland Barthes Quotes
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
Roland Barthes 
55% of people like this quote
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
Roland Barthes
54% of people like this quote
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Roland Barthes
54% of people like this quote