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The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

~Roland Barthes

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Literature is the question minus the answer.

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For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

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The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

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What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

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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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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Critic

Born: November 12th, 1915

Died: March 25th, 1980

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