Quotes by Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

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You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
(Love’s atopia, characteristic which causes it to escape all dissertations, would be that *ultimately* it is possible to — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
…This singular reversal may perhaps proceed from the fact that for us the “subject” (since Christianity) is the one who — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Gossip reduces the other to he/she, and this reduction is intolerable to me. For me the other is neither he nor she; the — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
To 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 l — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Am I in love? – yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doe — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the ob — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utters. I can deliberatel — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Engulfment is a moment of hypnosis. — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity". — Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments