The 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).
ROLAND BARTHESWhy is it better to last than to burn?
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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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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I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite, that obliquity into which our subject flees, the black-and-white where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
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Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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