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The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.

Roland Barthes

Language is never innocent.
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Innocent Language One Liner
The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.
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Failure Obligation Reading Story
New York is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.
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Abstraction Desert Height Man Reality
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
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Attend People Performance Spectacle Sports Thinking
Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.
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Literature Poet Talk Writing
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Culture Drawing Text
Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
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Experience Fashion Past Present Refusal
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying
The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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Forget Lover Memories Strain Time
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Afford Appearance Body Erotic Glimpse
The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Creation Education School
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
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Community Family Instrument Television
Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or “filiation”), the Text is without a source – the “author” a mere “guest” at the reading of the Text.
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Reading Source Text Understand Work
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.

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