"The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: an irreducible (and not merely an acceptable) plural. The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination."

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Source : "From Work to Text". Book by Roland Barthes. Proposition 4, 1971.

Roland Barthes

#Answers Quotes #Explosions Quotes #Interpretation Quotes

“You know, they say that there is a part of the human chest that it you strike it hard enough, it makes the personâ€™s heart explode. This sounds like such a lie that I have to believe itâ€™s the truth. If I were science, Iâ€™d never tell anyone where this place is. If I were science, Iâ€™d have named this place after you.”

Source : Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (2013). “Everything Is Everything”, p.68, SCB Distributors
“When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by more than the time you fell asleep in my arms in a trust so gentle I let the darkening room drink up the evening, till rest, or the new rain lightly roused you awake. I asked if you heard the rain in your dream and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.”

Source : Edwin Morgan (1990). “Collected poems”, Carcanet Press
“All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.”
“There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people.”
“No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of some physical function.”

Source : Moshé Feldenkrais, Elizabeth Beringer (2010). “Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshé Freldenkrais”, North Atlantic Books
“Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality.”
“Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.”
“people don't change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character”

Source : Chad Kultgen (2009). “The Lie: A Novel”, Harper Perennial

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