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

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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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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,...

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...

Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall...

Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall...

But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and...

But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and...

Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong...

Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong...