Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
ROLAND BARTHESThe text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony.
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Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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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 best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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