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About Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician.
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Additional quotes by Roland Barthes
The cultural work done in the past by gods and epic sagas is now done by laundry-detergent commercials and comic-strip character
Justice is always ready to lend you a spare brain in order to condemn you without a second thought
Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning rests on conflict (the choice of one term against another), and all conflict is generative of meaning: to choose one and refuse the other is always a sacrifice made to meaning, to produce meaning, to offer it to be consumed.