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«To eat steak rare. . . represents both a nature and a morality.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
«Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
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«There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it»
«Inexpressible Love: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, to know that writing compensates for nothing..»
«The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
«Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
«Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.»
«Very often (too often in my view) I was aware of being photographed. So, from the moment I feel I am in the camera's eye, everything changes: I begin to pose, I immediately create a different body, I change even before the image.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
«The New is not a fashion, it is a value.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
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