Roland Barthes

There are people...

There are people...

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no...

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What the Journal...

What the Journal...

What the Journal posits is not the tragic question, the Madman's question: Who am I?, but the comic question, the...

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The New is...

The New is...

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

Source: The Pleasure of the Text, Modern ...

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The politician being...

The politician being...

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he...

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To hide a...

To hide a...

To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject...

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Wine is a...

Wine is a...

Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an...

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To eat steak...

To eat steak...

To eat steak rare. . . represents both a nature and a morality.

Source:...

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The face of...

The face of...

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

Source: Mythologies, The...

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To try to...

To try to...

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and...

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To endow the...

To endow the...

To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is...

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