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Quote by Roland Barthes
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. – Roland Barthes

Other quotes by Roland Barthes

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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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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Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself. – Margaret Atwood

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What we do as a society is seek simple answers. – Dean Koontz

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Living in this modern toxic world, we are all slowly being poisoned to death. – Carrie Latet, 2006

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It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, 1891

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