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

Quote by Roland Barthes

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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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

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...

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

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 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...

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...

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,...

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

I don't think we're in Kansas anymore

I don't think we're in Kansas anymore