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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse? – Roland Barthes

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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! – 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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The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers. – John Taylor

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Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone. – Georg Simmel

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Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide. – Honoré de Balzac

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Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on? – P.G. Wodehouse

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