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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
Topic: Advice
Author: Roland Barthes
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Topic: Literature
Author: Roland Barthes
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Topic: Passion
Author: Roland Barthes
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
Topic: Sarcasm
Author: Roland Barthes
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.
Topic: Sports
Author: Roland Barthes
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