Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it. - Roland Barthes

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Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.

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About Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician.

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Alternative Names: Roland Gérard Barthes
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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