The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
ROLAND BARTHESTo 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.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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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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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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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
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