"Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering."

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Source : "Camera Lucida". Book by Roland Barthes, www.theguardian.com. 1980.

Roland Barthes

#Sad Quotes #Grief Quotes #Bereavement Quotes

“Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.”
“Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)”
“I wanted to be an artist after all, and my teachers told me these were the best authors the 20th century had to offer. But these books sucked. They were so boring and sloppy and plotless. And Bob Dylan's lyrics seemed nonsensical to me - almost like he had just gotten high and written down whatever random thoughts occurred to him.”
“I don't read much of anything online.”
“I have stopped being a misanthrope.”
“A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.”
“Having nothing, nothing can he lose.”
“The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.”

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