“What love lays bare in me is energy.”
Roland Barthes book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Source: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Quotes from bookA Lover's Discourse: Fragments
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments is a 1977 book by Roland Barthes. It contains a list of "fragments", some of which come from literature and some from his own philosophical thought, of a lover's point of view. Barthes calls them "figures"—gestures of the lover at work.
“To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".”
Roland Barthes book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Source: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
Roland Barthes book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Source: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.”
Roland Barthes book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Source: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
