Morana

“The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.”
― Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes

“I have not a desire but a need for solitude.”
― Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979

“Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.”
― Roland Barthes

“If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a "weakness" or an "absurdity": it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments