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To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
Roland Barthes
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Roland Barthes
Age: 64 †
Born: 1915
Born: November 12
Died: 1980
Died: March 25
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Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce' ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene.
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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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