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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.

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Roland Barthes
Age: 64 †
Born: 1915
Born: November 12
Died: 1980
Died: March 25
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Literary Critic
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Literary Theorist
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Roland Gérard Barthes
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