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.

Quote by Roland Barthes

Topics: Love Quotes, Pleasure Quotes

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

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

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

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but...

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but...

Mr. Fitzgerald--I believe that is how he spells his name--seems to believe that plagiarism begins...

Mr. Fitzgerald--I believe that is how he spells his name--seems to believe that plagiarism begins...

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my...

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my...