By reducing any quality to quantity, myth economizes intell… - Roland Barthes

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By reducing any quality to quantity, myth economizes intelligence: it understands reality more cheaply.

Roland Barthes

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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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When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.

What affects me most powerfully: mourning in layers — a kind of sclerosis.

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By reducing any quality to quantity, myth economizes intelligence: it understands reality more cheaply. - Roland Barthes

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