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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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

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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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Like love, mourning affects the world — and the worldly — with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from its demands. The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation, etc. The world depresses me.
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