Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
...language is never innocent.
What love lays bare in me is energy.
The Text is not a definitive object.
Every exploration is an appropriation.
Why is it better to last than to burn?
The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
I have not a desire but a need for solitude.
Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
The necessary condition for an image is sight.
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.
…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.
The photographic image... is a message without a code.
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.
The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.
To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.
Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce' ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene.
Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.