{"quotes":[{"text":"Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.","author":"Roland Barthes","tags":["literary-theory","literature","roland-barthes"],"id":8153,"author_id":"Roland+Barthes"},{"text":"I experience reality as a system of power. Coluche, the restaurant, the painter, Rome on a holiday, everything imposes on me its system of being; everyone is *badly behaved*. Isn't their impoliteness merely a *plenitude*? The world is full, plenitude is its system, and as a final offense this system is presented as a 'nature' with which I must sustain good relations: in order to be 'normal' (exempt from love)...'—from_A Lover's Discourse: Fragments_.","author":"Roland Barthes","tags":["being","reality","roland-barthes"],"id":117703,"author_id":"Roland+Barthes"},{"text":"So long as I perceive the world as hostile, I remain linked to it: *I am not crazy*. But sometimes, once my bad temper is exhausted, I have no language left at all: the world is not 'unreal' (I could then utter it: there are arts of the unreal, among them the greatest arts of all), but disreal: reality has fled from it, is nowhere, so that I no longer have any meaning (any paradigm) available to me; *I do not manage* to define my relations with Coluche, the restaurant, the painter, the Piazza del Popolo. What relation can I have with a system of power if I am neither its slave nor its accomplice nor its witness.'  —from_A Lover's Discourse: Fragments_.","author":"Roland Barthes","tags":["being","power","reality","roland-barthes"],"id":203564,"author_id":"Roland+Barthes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}