To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.

Quote by Roland Barthes

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

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

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

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

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

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to...

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to...

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...

New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices,...

New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices,...

Inexpressible Love: To know that one does not write for the other, to know that...

Inexpressible Love: To know that one does not write for the other, to know that...

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

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

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

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...

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...

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life,...

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life,...

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...

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to...

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to...

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 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...

Language is the dress of thought.

Language is the dress of thought.

It is not difficult to write in Spanish; the Spanish language is a gift from...

It is not difficult to write in Spanish; the Spanish language is a gift from...