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"There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied-who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could attain that one desire outside of reach they would be happy. It seems almost pointless to give to these people because their eyes immediately shift from the gift to stare miserably at the portion held back. Their wants, demands, expectations, appetites are never satiated, thus they refuse to be happy. And you cannot make them so."
"For the duration of his erection: To a horny man, all women are the most beautiful woman in the world."
"Do you have a dream or desire that is burning a hole in your soul? Something that lights your fire and brings you simple pleasure?"
"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."
"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing 'Jagat kalyan' (world's salvation)."
"He wants her to want him with the same intensity. She looks upon him with lusts draw and whispers, "Take me, I am yours."
Explore more quotes by Roland Barthes
"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth."
"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 have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."
"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 bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."
"For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture."
"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."
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