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Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
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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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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment; cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.
John James Audubon
Roland Barthes
Born:
November 12, 1915
Died:
March 26, 1980
(aged 64)
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