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Roland Barthes

To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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Fragile Soft Talk Tender Yourself
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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Himself Imagination Policy Politics Trouble
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Invisible Photograph See
Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Different Magic Sight Touch
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Existence Language Man Position
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Answer Literature Question
A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
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Description Photograph Plural
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Author Beginning Death Deep Writing
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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Body Desire Life Love Myself
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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Bliss Image Knowledge Mythology World
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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Evil Forgiveness God Ourselves Suffering Weakness
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
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
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.
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Classification Forget Language Oppression Power Speech

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