~ 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. ~ ~ 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
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