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

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

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 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...

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...

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...