New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.

Quote by Roland Barthes

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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which...

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which...

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of...

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of...

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new...

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new...

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its...

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its...

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long...

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long...

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if...

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if...

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is...

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is...

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress,...

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress,...

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is...

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is...

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness...

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness...

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if...

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if...

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending...

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending...

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to...

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to...