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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. – Roland Barthes

Other quotes by Roland Barthes

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. – Roland Barthes

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Society
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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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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. – Roland Barthes

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Books
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Other Quotes from
Sports
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The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous. – Sebastian Vettel

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Sports

Theres nothing masculine about being competitive. Theres nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I dont know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports. – Rebecca Lobo

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Sports

I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. Im not talking about acting or anything like that, Im talking about people I admire, whether its a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever. – Benicio Del Toro

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Sports

Most ball games are lost, not won. – Casey Stengel

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Sports

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. – Wallace Stevens

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Never be so brief as to become obscure. – Tryon Edwards

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Brevity

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. – Gaston Bachelard

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Sleep