"What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? What "grace" might have enlightened me? except that… - Roland Barthes

In order to satisfy this great oneiric function, which makes it not a kind of total monument, the [Eiffel] Tower must escape reason. The first condition of this victorious flight is that the Tower be an utterly useless monument.

The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.

Suicide

How would I know I don’t suffer any more, if I’m dead?