"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."

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"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."

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"In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Love, Childhood, Joy, Emotion

"You know you are in pure love when you see only the beauty inside you and all around you."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Beauty, Pure, Perception

"These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart."

Pat Conroy, American Writer

Love, Moments, These, Emotion

"To love is to act."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Love, Act

"Falling in love is very easy, but staying in love is very difficult."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Difficulty, Staying, Romance

"I was a watchful boy being raised by a father I didn't admire. In a desperate way, I needed the guidance of someone who could show me another way of becoming a man. It was sometime during the year when I decided I would become the kind of man that Bill Dufford was born to be. I wanted to be the type of man that a whole town could respect and honor and fall in love withthe way Beaufort did when Bill Dufford came to town to teach and shape and turn its children into the best citizens they could be."

Pat Conroy, American Writer

Love, Romance, Bill, When

"Each day brings new opportunities, allowing you to constantly live with love-be there for others-bring a little light into someone's day. Be grateful and live each day to the fullest."

Roy T. Bennett, American Author

Love, Kindness, Gratitude, Power

"The mind judges in order to love. The heart just loves unconditionally."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Mind, Heart, Judgment, Unconditional

"If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Love, Passion, Reason, Existence

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Love, Faith, Truth, Happiness

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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 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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"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."

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"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."

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"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."

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"In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child."

"You know you are in pure love when you see only the beauty inside you and all around you."

"These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart."

"To love is to act."

"Falling in love is very easy, but staying in love is very difficult."

"Each day brings new opportunities, allowing you to constantly live with love-be there for others-bring a little light into someone's day. Be grateful and live each day to the fullest."

"The mind judges in order to love. The heart just loves unconditionally."

"If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?"

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?"

Explore more quotes by Roland Barthes

"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."

"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!"

"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."

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

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

"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."

"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."

"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."