Roland Barthes Quotes

Let Us Suppose That I Have Wept, On Account Of Some Incident Of Which The Other Has Not Even Become Aware (to Weep Is Part Of The Normal Activity Of The Amorous Body), And That, So This Cannot Be Seen, I Put On Dark Glasses To Mask My Swollen Eyes (a Fine Example Of Denial: To Darken The Sight In Order Not To Be Seen). The Intention Of This Gesture Is A Calculated One: I Want To Keep The Moral Advantage Of Stoicism, Of "dignity" (I Take Myself For Clotilde De Vaux), And At The Same Time, Contradictorily, I Want To Provoke The Tender Question ("But What's The Matter With You?"); I Want To Be Both Pathetic And Admirable, I Want To Be At The Same Time A Child And An Adult. Thereby I Gamble, I Take A Risk: For It Is Always Possible That The Other Will Simply Ask No Question Whatever About These Unaccustomed Glasses; That The Other Will See, In The Fact, No Sign.

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