Literature is the question minus the answer.
From Roland Barthes
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
The photographic image... is a message without a code.
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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