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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
Roland Barthes
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Roland Barthes
Age: 64 †
Born: 1915
Born: November 12
Died: 1980
Died: March 25
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Essayist
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Literary Critic
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Literary Theorist
Mythographer
Non-Fiction Writer
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Screenwriter
Roland Gérard Barthes
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.
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