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Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.

Roland Barthes
Pain, Literature, Choke

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Roland Barthes
Understanding, Literature, Trouble
Roland Barthes, Richard Howard (1989). “Bruissement de la Langue”, p.372, Univ of California Press

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

Roland Barthes
Shining, Literature, Moments
Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag (1983). “Barthes: Selected Writings”

Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a word: Text (it is wrong to say that the notion of 'text' repeats the notion of 'literature': literature represents a finite world, the text figures the infinite of language).

Roland Barthes
Adventure, Literature, World
Roland Barthes (1994). “Roland Barthes”

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