Roland Barthes

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

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

– Roland Barthes –

The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France

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