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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.

Roland Barthes

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
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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Escape Present Way
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
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Author Beginning Death Deep Writing
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Existence Language Man Position
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
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
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Interesting Language Myself Seduce Wound
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Answer Literature Question
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
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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Age Experience Old Specific Vision
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Emotional Sexuality
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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Himself Life Reading Story
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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Existence Oneself Repeat Reproduction
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

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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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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