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.
ROLAND BARTHESIsn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? -This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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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 best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
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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.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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