Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course At The Collège De France, 1977-1978 Quotes
If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.