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.
ROLAND BARTHESThus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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.
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Why is it better to last than to burn?
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The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not–this is the beginning of writing.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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