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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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.Roland Barthes
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
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Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. . . . The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere. . .
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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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Inexpressible LoveTo know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love, to know that writing compensates for nothing..
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