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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For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long...

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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to...

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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to...

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

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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life,...

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

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its...

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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if...

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

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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which...

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of...

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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

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Literature is the question minus the answer.

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Inexpressible Love: To know that one does not write for the other, to know that...

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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending...

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

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

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 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...