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"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."
"I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive."
"I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes."
"Are deepest desires are: someone to understand us, someone to appreciate us, someone to inspire us, and someone to enjoy what we are."
"You have a nice mouth," he says. "I can't stop looking at it.""You should taste it. It's quite lovely."
Explore more quotes by Roland Barthes
"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."
"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive."
"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!"
"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."
"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 skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."
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