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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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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Roland Barthes
Born:
November 12, 1915
Died:
March 26, 1980
(aged 64)
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