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

Quote by Roland Barthes

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

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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,...

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

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

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...

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...

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,...

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love

I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is...

I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is...

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be...

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be...