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"I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object."
Roland Barthes
Automobiles
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"Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure."
Roland Barthes
Pleasure
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"Inexpressible Love:
To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love, to know that writing compensates for nothing.."
Roland Barthes
Love
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"There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment."
Roland Barthes
Liberals
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"Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner."
Roland Barthes
Wine
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"All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology."
Roland Barthes
Language
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"To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other."
Roland Barthes
Passion
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"Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking."
Roland Barthes
Alcohol And Alcoholism
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"Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them."
Roland Barthes
Class
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"A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see."
Roland Barthes
French Critic Quotes
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"There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque."
Roland Barthes
Sports
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"To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even more miraculous for me, and of a more divine essence, the products of his art. Far from the details of his daily life bringing nearer to me the nature of his inspiration and making it clearer, it is the whole mystical singularity of his condition which the writer emphasizes by such confidences. For I cannot but ascribe to some superhumanly the existence of beings vast enough to wear blue pajamas at the very moment when they manifest themselves as universal conscience."
Roland Barthes
Writers And Writing
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"Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula."
Roland Barthes
French Critic Quotes
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"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion."
Roland Barthes
French Critic Quotes
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"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."
Roland Barthes
French Critic Quotes
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"The photographic image... is a message without a code."
Roland Barthes
French Critic Quotes
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"The New is not a fashion, it is a value."
Roland Barthes
French Critic Quotes
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"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."
Roland Barthes
French Critic Quotes
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"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."
Roland Barthes
French Critic Quotes
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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."
Roland Barthes
French Critic Quotes
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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."
Roland Barthes
French Critic Quotes
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