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Why is it better to last than to burn?

Roland Barthes

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
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
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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Ideas Institution Meaning Official Popular Repeat Structure
Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Different Magic Sight Touch
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
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Confession Inflexion Lying
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
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
Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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Design Myself Reading Writing
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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Culture Drawing Text
The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Answer Literature Question
Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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Fragile Soft Talk Tender Yourself
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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Beyond Image Meaning
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Emotional Sexuality
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

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