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Vote: | A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. |
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Vote: | I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Literature is the question minus the answer. |
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Vote: | New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation. |
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Vote: | The New is not a fashion, it is a value. |
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Vote: | The photographic image... is a message without a code. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher and semiotician.
Background
Barthes (pronounced BART) was born in Cherbourg, Manche. His father died while Barthes was young, and he and his mother moved to Paris in 1924, his mother working as a bookbinder. Barthes studied at the Sorbonne. In 1934 he became infected with tuberculosis. He was in sanitoriums but, during intermissions in the illness, between 1939 and 1949 he taught in schools at Biarritz, Bayonne, Paris, and Bucharest. From 1949 he moved into teaching in higher education. In 1980, he met his death on a Parisian street, run over by a laundry van.
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