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The New is not a fashion, it is a value. - Roland Barthes

The New is not a fashion, it is a value. – Roland Barthes

Other quotes by 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. – Roland Barthes

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Cynicism
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Roland Barthes
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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. – Roland Barthes

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Language
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Roland Barthes
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure. – Roland Barthes

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Pleasure
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Roland Barthes
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Other Quotes from
Fashion
category

Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them. – Bettina Ballard

Category:
Fashion

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. – Robert Bresson

Category:
Fashion

How to dress? When the money is going from you wear anything you like. When the money is coming to you, dress your best. – Proverb

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Fashion

If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. – Beau Brummel

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Fashion

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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. Im afraid it did. – Bette Davis

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I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go. – Ziggy Marley

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pet

At the root of many a womans failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. – Robert Farrar Capon

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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. – Albert Camus

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Nature