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To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.
Roland Barthes
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Roland Barthes
Age: 64 †
Born: 1915
Born: November 12
Died: 1980
Died: March 25
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Roland GĂ©rard Barthes
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Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce' ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene.
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The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other.
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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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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Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.
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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 (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not--this is the beginning of writing.
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