It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel - Roland Barthes

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I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

Roland Barthes

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel

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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 birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

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Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

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. . . language is never innocent.

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How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings?

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Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

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I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

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