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Roland Barthes - The Pleasure of the Text (1973)

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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

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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 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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The text you write must prove to me that it desires me.

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Born: November 12, 1915
Died: March 26, 1980 (aged 64)
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