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

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 New is not a fashion, it is a value.

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

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

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

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,...

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,...

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 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.

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...

I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and...

I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and...

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be...

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be...

And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of...

And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of...