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The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programmes, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
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I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?
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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
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Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.
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Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
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Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative lead back to Oedipus? Isn't storytelling always a way of searching for one's origin, speaking one's conflicts with the Law, entering into the dialectic of tenderness and hatred?
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Isn't the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more 'I love you's.
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Roland Barthes
Born:
November 12, 1915
Died:
March 26, 1980
(aged 64)
Bio:
Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician.
Known for:
Mythologies (1957)
Camera Lucida (1980)
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (1977)
The Pleasure of the Text (1973)
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