We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’ meaning (the ‘message’ of the Author/God) but a multidimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centers of culture.
—Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author” (1968), Image-Music-Text (London: Fontana Press, 1977), trans. S. Heath.
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essentially anonymous
A work of art has an author, and yet, when it is perfect, there is something essentially anonymous about it. It imitates the anonymity of divine art.
—Simone Weil, The Simone Weil Reader (David McKay, 1977), ed. George Panichas
—Simone Weil, The Simone Weil Reader (David McKay, 1977), ed. George Panichas
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