I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
ROLAND BARTHESThe birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?
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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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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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Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language – the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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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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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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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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