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Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

Roland Barthes

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
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
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Art History Live Mutation Pleasure
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
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Interesting Language Myself Seduce Wound
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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Common Deep Intelligence Known Name Philosophy Sense War
I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.
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Beyond Death Myself Pass Reality Spectacle
Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Appropriate Exploration
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Myself Painting Reality See
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Author Beginning Death Deep Writing
Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.
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Dinner Environment Formal Moral Society Talk Wine
The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Code Image Message Photography
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
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Existence Language Man Position

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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