Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die. - Roland Barthes

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Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

Roland Barthes

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

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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.

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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

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Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

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. . . language is never innocent.

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If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.

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Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

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The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

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Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

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Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

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