Inexpressible Love: To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love, to know that writing compensates for…

Quote by Roland Barthes

Topics: Love Quotes

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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,...

You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and...

You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and...

Love could be such a beautiful, long lasting thing if people actually put the effort...

Love could be such a beautiful, long lasting thing if people actually put the effort...

Grumbling is the death of love.

Grumbling is the death of love.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what...

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what...