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Quote by Roland Barthes
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor

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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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. – 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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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. – Joseph Addison

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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. – Jane Austen

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I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of lifes sensational pleasures. – Robert Benchley

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Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen

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