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

Quote by Roland Barthes

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

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...

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...

If you love it let it go. If it returns to you cherish it, if...

If you love it let it go. If it returns to you cherish it, if...

I need you in front of me, saying my name, saying to me... I choose...

I need you in front of me, saying my name, saying to me... I choose...

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single...

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single...