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



Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.



The photographic image ... is a message without a code.



The photographic image ... is a message without a code.



Literature is the question minus the answer.



Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.



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.



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



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.



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.



Literature is the question minus the answer.



What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.



Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.



This is a perfect world I'm riding on an incline I'm staring in your face You'll photograph mine



There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.








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