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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
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The text you write must prove to me that it desires me.
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.
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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
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Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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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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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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The goal of literary work (of literature as work) is to make the reader no longer a consumer but a producer of the text.
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Despite having names of Greek shepherds (Polystyrene, Polyvinyl, Polyethylene), plastic... is in essence the stuff of alchemy.
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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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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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More than a substance, plastic is the very idea of its infinite transformation; as its everyday name indicates, it is ubiquity made visible.
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Television doomed us to the Family, whose household entertainment it has become—what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
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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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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Roland Barthes
Born:
November 12, 1915
Died:
March 26, 1980
(aged 64)
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